After the Berlin Wall came down, 18 million people in East Germany were — for the first time in more than 40 years — able to travel as widely as they could afford; express political opinions ...

East Germans are still seeking answers for ... Oring on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Oring told Fox News: “I set up with a typewriter in Bernauer Strasse ...

15, 2022. AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans – told they were free to travel anywhere – wept, hugged, danced and kissed in both halves of divided Berlin today after East Germany opened ...

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 ...

In reality, the wall, which turned East Berlin into a vast open-air prison, was a desperate measure by East Germany's government to stop millions of its own citizens fleeing to freedom after ...

Situated near the former border between East and West Berlin, it played a central role in the city's divided history. Once ...

We're opening the floodgates now," he announced. A human tide of East Berliners poured into West Berlin. Within the hour, all seven of the wall's crossing points had been thrown open and a giant ...

The wall had its origins in the end of World War II, when Germany was carved into four pieces and occupied by Allied powers. Although Berlin was located about 90 miles east from the border between ...

5 This grid of sharpened rebar was one of countless such grates placed alongside the Berlin Wall from the mid-1960s, designed to pierce the shoes of fleeing East Germans. This section of "Stalin's ...

East Germany’s political collapse was mirrored in football, but a focus on youth brings hope for the future. Just over 50 ...