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Watch: Augmented reality keeps Berlin Wall memories alive

The MauAr app shows how the Wall changed and grew over the years and what life was like beside it.

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Watch: German pupils discover Berlin Wall by bike

School pupils from western Germany have been discovering the Berlin Wall on a cycling tour. Their route took them through areas where prior to 1989 they would have been shot on sight.

Bulgaria

30 years after 1989, central Europeans say democracy is again at risk

"It appears that some of the freedoms won in the 1989 revolutions are now under pressure," the report from the Open Society Foundation found.

Germany

What was the Berlin Wall? | Euronews answers

An idiot's guide to exactly what went down 30 years ago - and why it matters.

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Breaking the mould: Handshake project marks Berlin Wall anniversary

A special art project is trying to get thousands of Berliners to shake hands to symbolise German reunification.

Germany

Watch: Visitors step behind Iron Curtain with VR tour of East Berlin

This virtual reality tour begins near the infamous Checkpoint Charlie border station between East and West Berlin.

Germany

Runners brave ultra-marathon to commemorate fall of Berlin wall

Around 500 runners from 32 countries will run along the 160-kilometre path where the Berlin Wall once stood.

Germany

Meet the women reunited 58 years after Berlin Wall was built

Two women have been reunited 58 years since they appeared in a now-famous photo shaking hands over the Berlin Wall.

World News

How barriers still divide Europe 30 years since fall of Berlin Wall

Today, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall there remain powerful barriers dividing people. The exhibition 'Walls of Power' explores man-made barriers throughout Europe today through the eyes of 44 artists.

Germany

How fall of the Berlin Wall paved way for Germany’s populists

Today many Easterners can't help but feel they were merely absorbed by their more wealthy, Western neighbors, rather than joining as equal partners.

Cult

Trabant celebrates 60th anniversary

It was 60 years ago that the first Trabant rolled off the production line. A symbol of mobility in Communist East Germany, 'Trabis', nicknamed 'plastic bombers', have achieved cult status and are now a collector's item.

Cult

Art from behind the Berlin wall

Voices of Dissent: Art in the German Democratic Republic 1976-1989

Culture news

What Berlin did for Bowie

David Bowie took up many striking and unique personas during his five-decade long career. Ever the chamaleon, he changed his look and music style

Germany

Gunter Schabowski, man who accidentally sparked fall of Berlin Wall, dies

Gunter Schabowski the East German spokesperson whose error led to the demise of the Berlin Wall has died aged 86. Guenter Schabowski, official whose

Germany

Watch: eight Vine videos to relive the historic fall of the Berlin Wall

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Escapes over the Berlin Wall

Germany

The fall of the Berlin Wall

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Building the Berlin Wall

My Europe Series

Generation wall - growing up after the fall of the Iron Curtain

World

Back in the Day: JFK’s Supportive Jelly Doughnut Speech