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 ...

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 ...

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.

The flood of East Germans and West Germans to the Wall, which led to its ultimate collapse, came after East German Politburo member Guenther Schabowski on Nov. 9, 1989, mistakenly announced that ...

On Nov. 9, 1989, tens of thousands of East Germans thronged to West Berlin with the opening of the Berlin Wall, and the party was on.

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 ...

A West German police officer, left, gives a helping hand to an East German border guard who climbs through a gap in the Berlin Wall when East Germany opened another passage at Potsdamer Platz in ...

It’s truly equivalent to the Berlin Wall, which led to a ripple effect of dozens of countries becoming free after 50 years of occupation and totalitarian control,” Rep. Joe Wilson of South ...

Berlin – Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany's capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations and official events ...

Tehran’s wall, like the Berlin Wall before it, is crumbling. Abdullah Hayek is a contributor to Young Voices and currently serves as an independent Middle East analyst and consultant based in ...