Mladenova also pointed out that the statue is the only public monument in Berlin that speaks to Germany’s Korean diaspora, which got its start with a migrant worker program in the 1960s.

Vandals have set fire to a mouse statue that’s a TV star and mascot for children’s programming at German broadcaster WDR.

Why the bronze figure of a girl in Germany is infuriating the Japanese government. In Berlin, a “Statue of Peace” has angered Japanese officials. It commemorates over 200,000 girls and women ...

A 'one-sided portrayal' In a press release in May, the mayor of Berlin called the statue a one-sided portrayal after meeting with the Japanese foreign minister in Tokyo.

Today, Molkenmarkt sits in West Berlin’s posh Mitte neighborhood. Excavations at the site began in 2019, ahead of a massive development project that will transform the area into a new hotspot.

Twenty-four years after it was buried, the head of a giant statue of Soviet revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin was dug up from woodland on the outskirts of Berlin on Thursday to be displayed at ...

President John F. Kennedy toured West Germany on June 26, 1963. During a speech to a crowd of about 150,000 people in West Berlin, he pledged that the United States would defend the city's freedom.