The construction of the Berlin Wall began on this day in 1961. It was constructed by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) to prevent residents from escaping to West Berlin. It was ...

A stretch of the old Berlin Wall has stood for decades as an open-air gallery, covered in fine art and graffiti. Bids for luxury developments in the area have artists hitting the streets in protest.

On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. Find out more about this important moment in history and why the wall was built and how it divided a city, a country and a continent.

On November 9th 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, marking the end of the Cold War and the unification of East and West Germany. A ...

On June 12, 1987 — more than 25 years after the Berlin Wall first divided the city’s East and West — U.S. President Ronald Reagan gave a famous speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in ...

In this Sept. 12, 1990 file photo, former U.S. President Ronald Reagan uses a hammer and chisel on the defunct Berlin Wall to take symbolic swings at the old Cold War barrier, three years after he ...

Berlin – Every Berliner knows him. And millions of tourists have taken photos with a picture of him. His faded, larger-than-life-sized portrait has loomed for 25 years over Checkpoint Charlie ...

Kani Alavi, a young Iranian artist living in Germany, raced to witness history as the wall falling in East Berlin. His vision, the Eastside Gallery, is today the longest section still standing.