Imagine it's 1966, and you're living in East Berlin, a city divided by the infamous Berlin Wall. The East German government, ...

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.

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 ...

(Revisit National Geographic's reporting from West Berlin before the wall fell.) East Germans began fleeing through the more permeable border between East and West Berlin instead. At one point ...

Jon Woodhouse, who writes regular arts and entertainment articles for The Maui News, is currently traveling in Europe and ...

Few people can look at Berlin’s ugly Wall without wanting ... sealed each one off before any East Berliners could flee to freedom. The Reds blamed the West for the blasts; Western observers ...

East and West Berliners flocked to the wall and began tearing it down. The wall was soon destroyed and Berlin was unified for the first time since 1945. The destruction of the Berlin Wall is ...

As the country prepares to mark three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German government has told Sky News that it's still battling significant differences between the East and West ...

Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a symbol of East ...

On June 12, 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, stood before the Brandenburg Gate and exhorted Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to “tear down ...