President Obama will deliver a speech to Berlin at Brandenburg Gate Ronald Reagan delivered his famous %22tear down this wall%22 speech in 1987 at the gate Bill Clinton made his %22Berlin is Free ...

On August 13 of that year, East German troops positioned themselves by the Brandenburg Gate and started sealing off the West-controlled part of Berlin. The wall, which ran 155 kilometers around ...

When I climbed out of my cab near the Brandenburg Gate, wearing civilian clothes ... shoot civilians if they tried to escape East Berlin once The Wall was under construction.

The fall of the Berlin Wall that separated West and East Berlin from Aug. 13, 1961, to Nov. 9, 1989, is known as the monumental event that marked the end of the Cold War. The following year ...

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 ...

spoke at the base of the Brandenburg Gate, near the Berlin Wall, on June 12, 1987. Due to the amplification system being used, Reagan's words could be heard in East Berlin. During his address ...

A giant Jewish menorah was erected in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, last week. The 234-year-old historic monument once stood in the backdrop of Germany's tumultuous history.

Whenever I visit Berlin I can't help remembering my ... cousins on the other side and adorned the famously Wall-adjacent Brandenburg Gate with flowers like a parade float, bystanders with hammers ...

Now the crowd was listless, the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate, recently restored ... actively financed their own venues, the wall fostered Berlin’s culture long before it fell.

“It started that very same evening,” says Cornelia Thiele of the Berlin Wall Foundation. “We have pictures of the Wall, in front of the Brandenburg Gate on the night of Nov 9, where people ...