For nearly 30 years the Berlin Wall divided Germany's biggest city in ... Where Checkpoint Charlie once stood, a larger-than-life poster shows an American soldier facing east (and on the poster's ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

and I continued tracking the wall with the help of my city map, which marked its path in pale gray. I was often unsure whether I was in East or West Berlin. Near the Spree River, 40 minutes from ...

When dawn came four hours later, a wall divided East Berlin from West for the first time in eight years. The wall was illegal, immoral and strangely revealing—illegal because it violated the ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...