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 ...

It's the friendship you didn't know you needed — iconic figure skaters Brian Boitano and Katarina Witt are touring Germany ...

The Berlin Wall, one of the most powerful symbols of the Cold War was destroyed on November 9th, 1989 the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 during the Cold War as *** way to separate the Soviet ...

Berlin on Saturday marked the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, with thousands of visitors attending a "Freedom Festival" along the former route of the Wall and a series of events ...

The opening could be straight out of Martin Cruz Smith. It's 19900, the winter after the Berlin Wall was torn down. Emil Grimm is walking in the woods outside his dacha outside Berlin.

Erected in haste and torn down in protest, the Berlin Wall was almost 27 miles long and was protected with barbed wire, attack dogs, and 55,000 landmines. But though the wall stood between 1961 ...

On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered his greatest speech at the Berlin Wall. The powerful voice of JFK resounded in the war-torn Berlin - ‘Ich bin ein Berliner.’ Back in 1963 ...

The city’s turbulent 20th-century history is visible in the bullet holes on facades, the graffitied remains of the Berlin Wall and the monotonous residential blocks erected during the post-World ...