Hiding in plain sight. You might say that this saying has two meanings. The first means to deliberately concealing something and yet it remains visible. For example, imagine somebody in disguise: you

During the Cold War, Checkpoint Charlie was a crossing point located midway across Berlin, just inside the city’s Western half, and administered by the United States Army. If you were going Eastward,

My first impressions of West Berlin were of a city which looked very much like any other major city in Western Europe: modern, cosmopolitan, chic, with no hint (at least none downtown)

In November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell — or, more accurately, it stopped functioning. Nobody knew this would happen, not even the people who authorized the change. Only a few months afterwards,

In 1956, in Communist-ruled Hungary, Soviet tanks crushed an anti-Communist rebellion. Despite that Marxist-Leninist achievement, Hungary’s new Soviet-installed leader, János Kádár, felt he would need more than Soviet tanks to secure his

The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. Today that event of more than thirty years ago is not only history, for more and more people it feels like ancient history. But

The year 2019 marked the 75th anniversary of the Allies’ D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe in World War II. I remember the 50th anniversary in 1994, which was a major celebration. Several

A double agent is a spy who works for both sides, albeit for one side more than the other. History’s largest double agent operation occurred during World War II. After Nazi Germany