Forty years ago this week, a wall rose dividing East and West Berlin. East Germany said at the time the Berlin Wall it was erecting would protect the divided city from “fascist” forces in the West.

For nearly 30 years, Berlin was divided not just by ideology, but by a concrete barrier that snaked through the city, serving as an ugly symbol of the Cold War. Erected in haste and torn down in ...

Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin’s symbol of death and division has been turned into a tangible way to experience history Joe Baur - Freelance travel writer It’s ...

(CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a symbol of ...

What's left of the wall transcends the Cold War. Nov. 4, 2009 -- FULTON, Mo. — Twenty years after it fell, the Berlin Wall has spread around the world, morphing en route from an instrument of ...

64 years ago, in the early hours of Aug 13, East Germans awoke to barbed wire and barricades after the Berlin Wall was ...

The Berlin Wall, one of the most powerful symbols of the Cold War was destroyed on November 9th, 1989 the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 during the Cold War as *** way to separate the Soviet controlled ...

The story will begin on August 13, 1961, when East Germany closed its borders to West Berlin. A group of students teamed with a civil engineer to conceive a 135-meter-long tunnel under the Berlin Wall ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – University leaders gathered at UMass Amherst’s Memorial Hall Tuesday to celebrate the installation of a segment of the Berlin Wall. The Consul General of Germany to the New ...