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 ...

Initially just marked out by primitive barbed wire when the GDR commenced construction during August 1961, the Berlin Wall was gradually built up to almost four meters in height and its defenses ...

Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. News Wrap: Anonymous official’s book ...

November 9 an imprecise instruction led to the collapse of the border infrastructure surrounding West Berlin, as Berliners ...

The Berlin Wall fell 35 years ago - a symbol of the division of Berlin, the division of Germany and the Cold War. The fall of the Wall was followed by the reunification of Germany and the exciting ...

Poverty rates are often high in borderland regions,” Wapner wrote, adding that “The wall imposes its mass on the very brain cells of those living nearby, reshaping mental maps and, in turn, their view ...

The subject of the Berlin Wall and its destruction has been dramatized numerous times in recent years in various TV productions, and often very successfully. And this new German mini-series from ...

Today, millions of Americans remember the wall and its significance in tandem with the evocative visuals of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan speaking from West Berlin over the wall to ...

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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 ...

Germany marked the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Saturday, a pivotal moment in the collapse of communism ...

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 ...