FILE - A view taken from a Cub artillery observation plane on July 10, 1945, shows vast areas of destruction in Berlin, after repeated Anglo-American air raids on the German capital. Seen on the left, ...
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When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...
Valeriya Safronova is a reporter based in Vienna. She almost moved to Berlin in 2012 but settled for regular visits instead. May 1, 2025 Berlin is home to bureaucrats and hedonists, lobbyists and ...
In 2019, at a bar in Berlin, three friends were having a drink when they started considering a radical idea: What if the middle of their then car-centric city became essentially car free? Over the ...
Burlesque dancer Anja Pavlova unhooks her spangled brassiere, tosses it aside and turns to face the cheering crowd. In the steaming hot Hoochie Koo club, the temperature shifts up a couple of extra ...
Little of the Berlin Wall survives today in the German capital. The onetime barrier between East and West has been torn down, chipped away or auctioned off. Between 1961 and 1989, the formidable East ...
A large-scale excavation in the middle of Berlin has uncovered artifacts and structures dating back eight centuries, including the foundations and machinery of the city’s first electrical plant, which ...
The European Union’s largest economy has a long history with das auto, for better and worse. Many foreign tourists in Germany have a speed-limit-free trip on the autobahn among their bucket list items ...
Andrea Jean Baker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...