At its peak, the Berlin Wall was 100 miles long. Today only about a mile is left standing. Compared with other famous walls in history, this wall had a pretty short life span. The Great Wall of ...

The man who would soon give the order to open the Berlin Wall was, at first, shocked by the Politburo's decision, all the more because no one had alerted him to any change of policy. Jaeger ...

To many Germans, Harald Jaeger is the man who opened the Berlin Wall. It's a legacy that still makes the former East German border officer uncomfortable 25 years after he defied his superiors ...

In the early 1960s, LIFE magazine’s photographers chronicled the construction of the Berlin Wall and, once it was built, its effect on residents living in the newly divided city. The Soviets and ...

On the evening of Nov. 9, 1989, an unremarkable East German functionary named Günter Schabowski bungled an assignment—and accidentally helped bring down the Berlin Wall. A Politburo member ...

The Mesopotamians, who built a civilization out of sun-dried ... With a vast section of the old Iron Curtain opening up, the Berlin Wall no longer made sense. The ideologies that build walls ...

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and for 28 years, it stood as the front line of the Cold War between the Western world order, led by the U.S., and the Soviets. East Germany's leadership had ...

Thirty years ago, the world watched as Germany celebrated a remarkable day in history. On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. For 28 years, the wall made freedom of movement nearly impossible.

To stem the bleeding of economic power and educated professionals, East Germany rapidly sealed the border with barbed wire barriers, which would later be fortified into the Berlin Wall.

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 ...

In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist ... Gate and the infamous Berlin Wall, built in 1961 to prevent East Germans from moving ...