The Berlin Wall fell 31 years ago. Here's how people who were there in 1989 remember the historic 'Mauerfall' today.

Germans from East and West Berlin stand on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Friday, November 10, 1989. (AP Photo File) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 ...

People visit East Side Gallery a day ahead of the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Berlin, Germany on November 8th, 2024. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

As obviously contrived and artificial as the Berlin Wall was, people who'd known nothing else found it hard to imagine any other world, least of all the Germans, most of whom had long given up on ...

People chip off pieces of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 15, 1989, on the West Berlin side of the wall, to keep as souvenirs. Two women cry tears of joy in November 1989, as they step into West Berlin ...

In the summer of 1989, few suspected that East Germany was weeks away from collapse. So in Berlin, Hans-Peter Spitzner was about to risk his and his daughter's lives to flee across the Wall. And ...

Balloons, tunnels, secret compartments—even homemade aircraft. From 1961 to 1989, desperate East Germans tried everything to break through the Berlin Wall. Some made it. Many didn’t.

People gather near a part of the Berlin Wall that was broken down after the communist German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) ...

People attend a flower laying ceremony on occasion of the 35th wall anniversary at the grounds of the Berlin Wall Memorial, Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Nov.9, 2024. Credit: AP/Ebrahim Noroozi ...

People stand around a 3-ton section of the Cold War-era Berlin Wall on Aug. 18, 2023. The artifact was placed in the Mexican beach community of Playas de Tijuana by the Berlin-based Falling Walls ...