Through the decades the wall was in place, thousands of people managed to escape from East Berlin, but at least 140 were killed in the attempt, many of them shot by East German border guards.

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.

Placed next to a display of pictures from the New Year's Eve after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it reads in the spirit of how an American might tell a Chuck Norris joke. “Bringing down ...

The wall is coming down and he couldn’t miss it. He said he’ll be back soon.'” According to Danson, there were no hard feelings because that’s just the kind of guy Harrelson is.

But in his Berlin warehouse filled with concrete pieces of Berlin Wall neatly stocked in banana boxes, the entrepreneur asserts that man cannot live on Wall alone. Skip to main content ...

Berlin “No Photos on the Dance Floor!Berlin 1989 — Today” documents the history of Berlin’s club scene after the wall fell, when bars, clubs, galleries, and studios began popping up in ...

Douglas Hamilton, the Reuters Chief Correspondent for the Balkans, covered the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the following story, he recalls the momentous events of November 9, 1989.

On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall crumbled. This exclusive BBC Archive clip reveals the night when people flooded over the border for an emotional, anarchic reunion.

It was sprayed with graffiti saying ‘Berlin Wall Mk 2,’ and the council issued an Enforcement Notice on April 25 telling the owner to take it down by May 27 or officials would do so.