It came to an end in 1991, just after the Berlin Wall came down. This map shows the divide between the east and the west By 1949, Germany had become two separate countries - The Federal Republic ...

For nearly 30 years the Berlin Wall divided Germany's biggest city in ... Where Checkpoint Charlie once stood, a larger-than-life poster shows an American soldier facing east (and on the poster's ...

The wall stands 12 feet high. Your friend lives on the other side. You can’t see him. And you won’t . . . for the next 28 years! Welcome to Berlin, Germany. The year is 1961. The Germans ...

On August 12-13, 1961, the Berlin Wall was born. It appeared literally overnight. Barbed wire was strung across the border between East and West Berlin, cutting off access either way. Workers were ...

When dawn came four hours later, a wall divided East Berlin from West for the first time in eight years. The wall was illegal, immoral and strangely revealing—illegal because it violated the ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...