People stand around a 3-ton section of the Cold War-era Berlin Wall on Aug. 18, 2023. The artifact was placed in the Mexican beach community of Playas de Tijuana by the Berlin-based Falling Walls ...

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 ...

Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany's capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations and official events commemorating one of ...

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.

The Berlin Wall fell and landfills swelled with Soviet junk. Thirty-five years after millions of East Germans tossed their Soviet-era stuff as quickly as dump trucks could haul it, ...

As an infantry company commander in the Army Berlin Brigade, I saw how the fall of the Berlin Wall changed Germany and Europe. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 81°F.

Roger Waters devised the Pink Floyd concept album The Wall as a kind of allegory about the barriers that unnecessarily separate us. When he returned to a live performance of the album a decade ...

Nov. 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the iconic barrier that completely enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989 and symbolized the height of Cold War tensions.

Fireworks light the sky during the as musicians play on stage during the concert for freedom for the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024.