Checkpoint

See why the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 marked not just the dismantling of a barrier, but a victory for freedom itself. Berlin had been politically divided since the end of World War II, with the eastern portion of the city serving as the cap…

Is the Beijing Consensus finally replacing the Washington Consensus? In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the Ethiopian president Meles Zenawi gave a series of speeches lauding Chinas developmental state as an alternative to a failed neoliberal mode…

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The slabs, painted by Berlin students, were "too brutal," one councilor told the city's community development committee, according to New Zealand's main newspaper-sourced website Stuff. Christchurch  still traumatized by a March 15 terror attack on two local…

After a day's work in October 1960, Heinz Brandt and a colleague decided to go to a bar in Charlottenburg, a well-to-do district in West Berlin. There Brandt met a young woman, Eva Walter. The encounter was by no means accidental: Both Walter and the colleagu…

Speaking in the Bundestag on Thursday, the commissioner for Germany's eastern states, Christian Hirte, paid tribute to civil rights activists and the church for their roles in achieving freedom and democracy during the 1989 demonstrations. They led to electio…

Born in 1949 in the welsh capital Cardiff,  Ken Follett spent his youth consuming more books than television shows. He attributes his career as a novelist to his childhood in a staunchly religious household, with the star author's narrative voice and dramatic…

Checkpoint Charlie

Colditz Castle where the infamous prisoner-of-war camp is located  The Second World War was the conflict that defined the 20th Century, and on this exclusive nine-day escorted tour you will explore some of the pivotal places in the Allies epic struggle again…