The history of the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 to its fall in 1989. A powerful symbol of the Cold War.

UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa Berlin Wall is built, dividing East and West Germany American-backed Cuban exiles fail in an attempt to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs ...

It was “a lucky day for which we Germans are still grateful today," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said of November 9th 1989 in a ...

On 13 August 1961 a barbed wire fence was erected along the border between East and West Berlin. The wire would quickly be replaced by a concrete wall, complete with lookout towers and armed ...

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 ...