From 1976 through 1990, the building in East Berlin served as a symbol of the communist state's power. The "People's Palace" ...
The founding of the German Democratic Republic in 1949 rang the death knell for the Stadtschloss. Walter Ulbricht had a somewhat morbid interest in architecture and ordered the surviving parts of the ...
Created in 1950 as a marketing tool to attract U.S. servicemen and their families stationed in Germany, the Romantic Road stretches 217 miles from Fussen to Wurzburg. Today, it attracts visitors lured ...