The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and for 28 years ... During a speech to a crowd of about 150,000 people in West Berlin, he pledged that the United States would defend the city's freedom.

and suicide in West Berlin was twice as frequent as in other West German cities. How deeply in the minds of most Berliners do the wall’s foundations still lie? The crowd fell silent as a Chinese ...

Citizens scale the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, in West Berlin. East Berlin citizens are welcomed by the crowd as they enter West Berlin by car on Nov. 9, 1989, at Checkpoint Charlie, a crossing ...

Berlin Wall: Countdown to 1961/1989 is available to ... it's about people trying to escape the house not to break into it. (crowd clapping) (narrator) In the late '80s, the SED regime was still ...

The Berlin Wall began as a border of barbed wire fencing ... June 26, 1963 - US President John F. Kennedy speaks to a crowd in West Berlin at the Rathaus Schöneberg (city hall) on Rudolph Wilde ...

The actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman, 51, climbed the brick wall of Hotel De Rome, a five-star luxury hotel in Berlin, without a harness, drawing an intrigued crowd. It is unclear why he ...

Cheers arose from the crowd as Kurt White, 18, ripped drywall from the wooden beams. The senior at Laramie High School dabbles in history and politics and said the fall of the Berlin Wall was a ...

open image in gallery East Berlin before the fall ... Harris photographed a defiant man atop the wall, completely soaked but gesturing peace signs to the crowd. Nearby, another man grins, trying ...

The wall has separated sons from mothers ... Sunny weekend weather brought a crowd of West Berlin youths to the border at Markgrafenstrasse. Some began throwing small paving stones at a Vopo ...

(crowd cheering) (solemn music) (narrator) Just two and a half years later, Reagan's wish has been granted. Without Gorbachev's support for the communist regime in East Germany, the Berlin Wall ...

With the other guards distracted by a gathering crowd, Schumann swapped out his ... on an Audi assembly line for 27 years. When the Berlin Wall finally fell, Schumann was able to reunite with ...