Few people can look at Berlin's ugly Wall without wanting to tear it down. Last week someone finally tried. ... Berlin: East & West of the Wall. 2 minute read. TIME. June 1, 1962 12:00 AM GMT-4.

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 its borders for ...

The wall featured guard towers, concertina wire, a wide-open area called the “death strip,” and East German troops with machine guns to enforce the borders. Before the wall was built, 3.5 ...

A man attacked the Berlin Wall with a pickaxe on the night of Nov. 9, 1989 as news spread rapidly that the East German Government would now start granting exit visas to anyone who wanted to go to ...

1 East German troops installing the Berlin Wall near the Reichstag in November 1961. Then. Now. 2 A car crossing from East to West Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie in October 1964.

The fall of the Berlin Wall signified the beginning of a new society - but who were the first band who performed after this historic event? Find out here.

East Side Gallery 3-kilometer section of the Berlin Wall. Following the Wall's fall in 1989, artists from around the world came together to transform this bleak structure into a canvas of hope and ...

People gather near a part of the Berlin Wall that was broken down after the communist German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) decision to open borders between East and West Berlin, Berlin, West ...

When the Berlin Wall fell, East German “stuff” went to landfills. The nostalgia of identity is creating a new market for communist-era goods.

3 A couple look over the wall into East Berlin in April 1983. Salter says the testing of anti-vehicle barriers was only one part of a vast research-and-development effort to trap people inside the ...

BERLIN (AP) — Like many other young women living in communist East Germany, Solveig Leo thought nothing about juggling work and motherhood. The mother of two was able to preside over a large ...