Jana Hensel was thirteen on November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall fell. In all the euphoria over German reunification, no one stopped to think what it wou

After the Wall offers a probing look at Germany and the Germans today--five decades after the end of World War II and five years after the fall of the Berlin Wa

A revelatory history of the commemoration of the Berlin Wall and its significance in defining contemporary German national identity.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the beginning of one of the most interesting natural experiments in recent history. The East German transition from a Co

A tour of Germany after reunification provides anecdotes of the West German people, an East German baker, Bavarian yodelers, Stalinist functionaries, and Wester