CBS News (Video) Angela Merkel on a world before and after the Berlin Wall. Posted: December 1, 2024 | Last updated: March 6, 2025. After growing up in the Communist-controlled police state of ...

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.

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.

Street art takes many forms, and the vibrant murals on the Berlin Wall both before and after its fall are expressions of people's opinions. But there was often secrecy around the processes for ...

The flood of East Germans and West Germans to the Wall, which led to its ultimate collapse, came after East German Politburo member Guenther Schabowski on Nov. 9, 1989, mistakenly announced that ...

When the Berlin Wall was still just a coil of barbed wire, ... Twenty years after his jump, Schumann stands before the iconic photo by Peter Leibing. Image: Edwin Reichert/AP.

Berlin’s East Side Gallery is a long stretch of wall segments muraled shortly after the reunification by over 100 artists from more than twenty countries. Photo: Nick Hilden ...

A sweeping but intimate novel about Berlin after the wall fell. Lutz Seiler’s “Star 111” vividly captures the city at a time of profound change, through the story of one young man and his ...

BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945.

The longest section of Wall remaining in Berlin is the East Side Gallery, where the once-gray concrete slabs are covered with murals that were painted by 118 artists after the opening of the border.