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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The show explores the often-overlooked history of Jewish life in East Germany, a country that existed for roughly 40 years following World War II until shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in ...

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.

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival as the ...

Berlin – Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany's capital on Saturday ... of the West and to stem the tide of people fleeing East Germany.

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 ...

Whitlam explains that 20-year-old Gueffroy, who died roughly nine months before the wall fell, was convinced to go for it after rumors that East Germany’s shoot-to-kill orders had been rescinded.

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.