The date marks both the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and of the beginning ... which came to be known as the Night of ...

For 28 years a 155km-long concrete wall snaked through the centre of Berlin, separating the Soviet-backed East from the capitalist West. Built in 1961 to stop residents from fleeing communist ...

Did you know Central New York holds pieces of the Berlin Wall? Discover where these Cold War relics are hidden and their ...

A Russian tycoon who last year infuriated neighbours by building a 'Berlin Wall' style fence around his £2.8million home has won permission to demolish his Victorian property and replace it ...

The half-naked protester was filmed defacing remnants of the Berlin Wall kept outside the German embassy in Ukraine capital Kyiv on Sunday with a Hitler mustache and swept-over cropped dark hair ...

Berlin was also split four ways even though it was in the Soviet zone, with the famous Berlin Wall signifying the divide. Over the second half of the 20th century, East and West Germany ...

German borrowing costs surged by the most since the fall of the Berlin Wall as a pledge to do ‘whatever it takes’ to boost its defences sent its bonds into free fall. In what was described as ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact of the Wall on international relations Test your knowledge In the late 1950s, issues around Berlin sparked off one of the ...

Nikita Khrushchev had become leader of the Soviet Union in 1956. In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that ...

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 ...