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

The half-naked protester was filmed defacing remnants of the Berlin Wall kept outside the German ... standing in front of the embassy again. She then picks up her jacket and walks away undisturbed.

Newsweek’s then ... Berlin bureau chief Michael Meyer called 1989 the year that changed the world. In “We the People,” British historian Timothy Garton Ash described the opening of the ...

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 ...

For 28 years a 155km-long concrete wall snaked through the centre of Berlin, separating the Soviet ... So when word of crowds gathering at the wall reached then-Europe correspondent Ian Henderson ...

That was the truth then and is the truth now. The Soviet leader might have ... tore down the literal wall in Berlin. The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in ...

Sunday's crunch elections in Germany are coming at perhaps the most pivotal moment since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Back then, it was about making a success of reunification. Now comes a ...

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 ...

On the night of 9th of November 1989, huge crowds stormed the wall dividing the West and East of the German city of Berlin, after a week of protests. The wall was constructed 28 years earlier to ...