A young woman looks at the no man's land on the other side of the Berlin Wall in April 1980, Germany. (Photo by Alain MINGAM / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) This Saturday, November 9, marks the 30 ...

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To mark the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, the Hotel de Rome, a Rocco Forte hotel in Berlin, will be hosting an extraordinary photo exhibition. Starting on ...

Donna West Brett received funding from the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Ernst and Rosemarie Keller Award for research related to this article. When the Berlin Wall divided Germany from 1961 ...

BERLIN – On Monday, Berliners celebrated a once unthinkable occasion: The Berlin Wall has now been gone for longer than it stood. But on the same day, the city’s authorities confirmed the discovery of ...

On Nov. 9, 1989, the communist government of East Germany announced that all residents would be permitted to travel to West Berlin and West Germany. Crowds of Eastern and Western Germans climbed onto ...

The German capital has many ruins that bear witness to its tumultuous history. Stretches of the Berlin Wall are preserved as a reminder of the pain wrought by political division during the Cold War, ...

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to separate East and West Berlin and stood until a series of political changes and civil unrest led East Germany to allow citizens to visit West Germany in November ...

Laura Krauss was a college student in Chicago nearly 50 years ago when she spotted a for-sale ad in the Chicago Tribune for an Olympus camera. Krauss wanted it for her art class. She saved up money ...

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Germans from East and West Berlin stand on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Friday, November 10, 1989. (AP Photo File) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and ...