It stood for 28 years, painfully dividing East and West Germany. But the Berlin Wall finally came down on November 9, 1989.

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On November 9th 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, marking the end of the Cold War and the unification of East and West Germany. A ...

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Berlin was also split four ways even though it was in the Soviet zone, with the famous Berlin Wall signifying the divide. Over the second half of the 20th century, East and West Germany reflected ...

A West German police officer, left, gives a helping hand to an East German border guard who climbs through a gap in the Berlin Wall when East Germany opened another passage at Potsdamer Platz in ...

(Berlin alone saw more than 5,000 documented successful escapes — 565 by East German guards — but also more than 140 deaths. Outside Berlin, roughly 1,000 people were killed trying to cross ...

The heavily fortified border —the Berlin Wall— plugged the last gap between East and West. On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched.

Dividing east and west The Berlin wall, which was in place in the city between 1961 and 1989, divided the city between the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and capitalist West Germany.

On Nov. 9, 1989, the communist government of East Germany announced that all residents would be permitted to travel to West Berlin and West Germany. Crowds of Eastern and Western Germans climbed ...