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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Berlin Wall was built by the communist authorities of East Germany in order to stop East Germans from fleeing west, although many subsequently died trying to do so [GALLO/GETTY] Fifty years ...

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.

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 Khrushchev Connection Who Ordered the Construction of the Berlin Wall ... to convince the East German population that the wall being built would protect them from Western spies, and he ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...