On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched. It marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Communist ...

'The Music Makers,' the latest historical fiction novel by award-winning author James D. Snyder, is a compelling drama set ...

“There’s no doubt in mind that this is a Berlin Wall coming down moment. It is profoundly transformative of the entire region but there are so many from an American perspective bad actors that ...

Möllering estimates that a couple of thousand people were already there when they arrived, singing Beatles songs and dancing on top of the Berlin Wall. He vividly remembers people jumping down to ...

At midnight on Aug. 13, 1961, East Germany sealed the borders around West Berlin ... to desert over the wall. Over 2,000 more would follow his example in the coming decades.

More than 100 people died trying to cross from East to West Berlin before the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989. Rothweiler, who later brought EWTN to Germany in 2000, sees John Paul II’s ...

Photo: Nick Hilden It’s been 35 years to the day since the Berlin Wall came down, ending nearly as many years of Cold War antagonism between the two halves of the fractured city and ushering the ...