The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop East Germans fleeing to the West. It began as a barbed wire and cinderblock wall and was then fortified as a heavily guarded 160-km (100-mile) white concrete ...

The night the Berlin Wall, divider of Germany and of the world, was brought down, people streamed to climb over it, stand on top of it or rush through it, in shock and jubilation. Others came with ...

The Berlin Wall entered the history books in 1961. It stood for 28 years as a stark testament to the differences between life on one side of that wall and the other. Hard to believe it's been 25 years ...

Historians are concerned as more of the wall disappears over time. BERLIN -- In the Berlin neighborhood of Pankow, a 196-foot stretch of the Berlin wall has been torn down to make way for condominiums ...

Ceremonies throughout Berlin on Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, culminating in the release of balloons tracing the former outline of the wall. Photo: Getty Images ...

Two scenes from the end of the Cold War: Scene one: On June 12, 1987, President Reagan stood before the Berlin Wall, the Brandenburg Gate rising behind him, to challenge to the leader of the Soviet ...

On Nov. 9, 1989, in East Germany, Holger Wenschuh already had cause to celebrate. He was nearing the end of his post-grad chemistry studies at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, and it was his ...

The German capital has many ruins that bear witness to its tumultuous history. Stretches of the Berlin Wall are preserved as a reminder of the pain wrought by political division during the Cold War, ...

BERLIN, Germany (KLTV/KTRE) – Three decades after the so-called ‘Peaceful Revolution’ toppled the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, people are celebrating the anniversary of its climax -- ...

Berlin has decided that it does not want the Wall back or to revisit the old East Berlin, even temporarily. An ambitious art project to recreate the barrier that long divided the city has been ...

Construction of the Berlin Wall started on August 13, 1961. In October of the next year,* *{: .apple-converted-space}The New Yorker* *{: .apple-converted-space}published “Die Mauer” (“The Wall”), a ...

Wall divided East and West Germany for 28 years. West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall, Nov. 11, 1989, as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall in order to ...