RFE/RL archival photos of the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. 1 East German troops were prominently deployed following the division of East and West Berlin on August 13, 1961. - The ...

At midnight on this day in 1961, units of the East German army began to close the border between East and West Berlin. Troops and workers tore up streets running alongside the border to make them ...

The winds of cold-war crisis for 1961 were converging on Berlin. Russia’s Nikita Khrushchev had made it plain that he intends to provoke that crisis. In his Vienna confrontation with Khrushchev, ...

To a lot of North Americans, memories of the Berlin Wall—if they surface at all—serve as a hazy reminder of a bygone era. Fifty years ago this week, however, things were a lot different. The Cold War ...

On October 27, 1961, combat-ready American and Soviet tanks faced off in Berlin at the U.S. Army\'s Checkpoint Charlie. Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union over access to the ...

The sun was high and the air was warm and moist at 8:30 a.m. when I got out of the 1950s black Mercedes diesel cab I had taken to Berlin”s monumental Brandenburg Gate. The day was Aug. 13, 1961, a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about cinema and TV series in Europe. On November 9, 30 years will have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

On 15 August 1961, two days after tearing up streets and installing barbed wire fencing to prevent the free movement between East and West Berlin, the East German authorities begin building a wall to ...

On August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up to find their city divided by a wall. On August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up on a Sunday morning to find their city divided by a wall. That day became known as ...

Photographs depicting life in Berlin during the Cold War, taken from a new exhibition to mark the anniversary of the fall of the Wall. 04 September 2009 • 8:00am Living with the Wall: Berlin 1961-1989 ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. The crowd of Berliners that had gathered to watch were looking confused, some ...