30 years after the fall. Hello and welcome to Plugged in. I'm Greta Van Susteren. If walls could talk, the more than 150 kilometers of concrete and barbed wire that once divided the German capital ...

The Berlin Wall was a concrete manifestation of the barrier between democracy and oppression. NPR's Scott Simon marks the 30th anniversary of the day it began to come down.

On August 24, 1961, 11 days after the Berlin Wall was erected, Günter Litfin jumped into the canal-like Spree River. Litfin, from eastern Berlin, had just acquired an apartment and a job in the ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Reporting from Berlin — For almost 30 years, desperate East Germans tried to drive through it, tunnel under it and fly over it. More than 136 died in the attempt. Less than two years after the ...

LAUCHHAMMER, Germany — Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification that followed, more Germans are returning home to the East. Now, small towns in the former Communist ...

Why German divisions remain, 30 years after fall of the Berlin Wall. It's been 30 years since one of the 20th century's biggest historic events: the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The fall of the Berlin Wall that separated West and East Berlin from Aug. 13, 1961, to Nov. 9, 1989, is known as the monumental event that marked the end of the Cold War. The following year Germany… ...

Now, nearly 35 years after the Wall fell, with old divisions cropping up once again in Germany and the wider world, the story ...

Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an urgent telegram reaches Carl Bischoff, a floundering East German bricklayer-turned-student in his mid-20s: “we need help please do come immediately ...