Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

It can be hard for visitors to Berlin to imagine where the Berlin Wall once separated Germany's communist East from the U.S.-friendly West. Today, commuters run to catch a metro where trains ...

BERLIN — It can be hard for visitors to Berlin to imagine where the Berlin Wall once separated Germany’s communist East from the U.S.-friendly West. Today, commuters run to catch a metro where ...

The following year Germany reunited as one nation, with Berlin as the capital. The Berlin Wall is seen in 1961, the year it was built, at Potsdamer Platz, in Berlin. The East German government ...

The wall had its origins in the end of World War II, when Germany was carved into four pieces and occupied by Allied powers. Although Berlin was located about 90 miles east from the border between ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little ... its fall and the reunification of Germany. Once you are finished in the visitor center, head across the street ...

BERLIN — Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany's capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations and official events ...

In reality, the wall, which turned East Berlin into a vast open-air prison, was a desperate measure by East Germany's government to stop millions of its own citizens fleeing to freedom after ...

A piece of world history can now be seen right here in Secaucus: A piece of the Berlin Wall will be on permanent display at ...

When the Berlin Wall came down I was just starting out as a jobbing journalist. After decades of indifference, British editors and readers were interested in Germany again. Over the next 30 years ...

As Germany celebrates the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989 — and the country’s reunification less than a year later on Oct. 3, 1990 — many in Germany are refle ...

“These concerts and Western music were listened to widely in East Berlin and East Germany,” says Harrison. “These icons singing so close, just on the other side of the Wall, certainly for ...