Berlin Wall

Welcome to TPG‘s series, Second Cities. The series is designed to help you find smaller or less-popular-but-equally-amazing places to visit no more than a few hours by air or land from your original destination so you can maximize your itinerary. Berlin, with a reputation for being “poor but sexy,” offers…

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Being alive often means living through some genuinely horrific or at least incredibly dramatic events. Events like 9/11, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Pearl Harbor, all of these irrevocably changed the world when they happened. If you were alive in 1963, you m…

By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court on Tuesday ruled a 700-year-old anti-Semitic sculpture could stay on the exterior of a church in the city of Wittenberg, dismissing a claim by a member of the local Jewish community that it was defamatory and …

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The "City Hostel" in Berlin may look fairly innocuous from the outside -- but it now faces closure in an unlikely legal drama over international sanctions against North Korea. Situated just a stone's throw from Checkpoint Charlie, the hostel offers cheap acc…

An American civil rights activist whose life is the subject of a new Hollywood film has told how he was inspired by a little known Holocaust memorial built by German primary school children.  Bryan Stevenson, whose struggle against racism has been turned into the movie Just Mercy, told how a…

Handgestickte Mauer auf Fotos von BerlinDiane Meyer hat die Mauer auf moderne Fotos von Berlin gestickt. Die gesamte Fotoserie zeigt die gesamten 155 Kilometer der ehemaligen innerdeutschen Grenze innerhalb Berlins. // Jason KottkeThe images were taken in the city center as well as in the suburbs where I followed the…