So with the Cold War and Kennan top of mind, it’s a good time to ask what is left of his presence in the East Berlin area, 17 years after his death at age 101.

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Launched in 1958 from a tiny East Berlin office on the famous Stalinallee — renamed Karl-Marx-Allee after the 1989 reunification — founding editor Margot Pfannstiel and the legendary German ...

During the Cold War, the Berlin Wall came to represent Germany’s divided nation and capital. Though mostly dismantled now, it remains a potent presence, marked by sites that hark back to a ...

President Kennedy decided to reinforce the 5,000-man U.S. garrison in Berlin, ordered 1,500 troops of the 8th Division to cross East Germany along the Helmstedt-Berlin Autobahn in armored trucks.

Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the cold war's most infamous border.

But the Berlin I know best is the ‘Old Berlin’ of the 1980’s Cold War. ... Friedrichstrasse Station was one of East Berlin’s only entry points, with its own customs’ post.

The real highlight is its collection of Cold War artifacts: fighter jets, western and Soviet; East German helicopters, West German radar installations, NATO air-defense systems and transport ...

For more than 40 years, Berlin was on the front line of the Cold War.Here is where GDR dissidents planned their escape to the West, where American and Soviet spies plotted and schemed, and where ...