His faded, larger-than-life-sized portrait has loomed for 25 years over Checkpoint Charlie, the historic U.S.-controlled border crossing that stood for three decades between West Berlin and 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.

November 9, 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. ... But during a trip to his old neighborhood on August 23, the last border crossing back to the West was closed.

When the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended, ... the legendary border crossing where American and Soviet tanks had a tense standoff just after the East Germans built the wall in 1961, ...

West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall, Nov. 11, 1989, as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall in order to open a new crossing point between East and ...

6 Picture taken in June 1968 of the famous "Checkpoint Charlie" crossing point, marking the border between East and West Berlin. 7 A photograph of the Berlin Wall with East Berlin behind, taken in ...

Anyone traveling to the capital of Germany can visit the remains of the 155-kilometer Berlin Wall. CNN Travel details where to see specific sites, which are all free.

News; World news; Berlin Wall; Berlin Wall: Father and daughter who risked lives crossing three months before it fell This was August 1989 and Hans-Peter, on the watchlist of the East German Stasi ...

The Berlin Wall stretched for almost 27 miles across the city and employed landmines, dogs, and barbed wire to discourage escape attempts. Still, over 5,000 people managed to reach western Europe ...

Nov. 9 is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It seems like yesterday when this most visible and recognizable symbol of the Cold War in Europe ceased to exist as a barrier between ...

As the world marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, we should also remember the many dozens of people who died trying to get past it. Ida Siekmann, the wall’s ...