Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of ...

People visit East Side Gallery a day ahead of the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Berlin, Germany on November 8th, 2024. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

A segment of the Wall on Wilhelmstraße. Photo: Nick Hilden. But the most impressive display—at least in the city center—is the East Side Gallery: a long stretch of segments that were muraled ...

Germany’s division after World War II left an indelible mark on the country, and its effects continue to be felt even decades after reunification. Despite the fall of the Berlin Wall and the ...

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 ...

When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, no one believed it would ultimately lead to its fall.

Post-war Berlin was divided into sectors controlled by the wartime allies. That hardened into a Cold War division that saw two separate German states founded in 1949 and ultimately led to the building ...

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 ...

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.