This November marks three decades since the Peaceful Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall. From art installations to dance parties, this is what's planned.
Monday marks the 99th anniversary of the extra-judicial killing of the two most prominent German communists of the early twentieth century. But a memorial which took place on Sunday illustrates just how complicated their legacy is.
Berliners gathered on Wednesday to remember the people killed 62 years ago, when ordinary people demonstrating against the East German regime were gunned down in the street by Soviet tanks and their own police force.