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20 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, photographer Arwed Messmer found photos taken by East German patrol agents during 1965 and 1966 looking toward the West.
The Berlin Wall came tumbling ... of Berlin and the two sides of Germany. The night it fell — by accident — people stormed from East to West Berlin, and photos from that night show gleeful ...
To the communist East German government ... To the U.S., and the rest of the world, it was known as the Berlin Wall—and a backdrop for several of the most gripping moments in American and ...
June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan stood before Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and challenged the Soviet leader, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." In 1989, the gates opened and east Germans flooded ...
Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall ... photos capture the scars that remain from the Cold War's most infamous border. Berlin's "anti-fascist protection barrier" was installed by East Germany ...
The evening sun lights remains of the Berlin Wall at the official Berlin Wall memorial site at Bernauer Strasse, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) 28,921 ...
MAINZ, Germany — The longest remaining section of the Berlin Wall has been saved from the threat of demolition. The so-called East Side Gallery, a three-quarter of a mile stretch that is famous ...
The East Side Gallery refers to the longest intact section of the Berlin Wall, which stretches for nearly a mile. If you want to experience the wall for the first time, this is the place to do it.
Concerned about security problems, the East German communist regime ordered border guards to snap photos of the Berlin Wall in the 1960s ... to someone on the other side near Potsdamer Platz.