When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

Berlin on Saturday marked the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, with thousands of visitors attending a "Freedom Festival" along the former route of the Wall and a series of events being ...

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BERLIN (AP) — Most of communist East Germany's heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of the Berlin ...

Germany's infamous symbol of division, the Berlin Wall, split West Berlin — an isolated enclave of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) — from East Berlin, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) for ...

Berlin, Germany, Dec. 20, 1963: A woman’s walk down a Berlin street on a cold day is made even more depressing by the presence of the two-year-old Berlin Wall. In later years, buildings near the ...

Berlin, Germany Nov. 1961: American troops enjoying a leisurely lunch atop a tank in the Friedrichstrasse bivouac area of Berlin Command’s Company F, 40th Armor provide a bit of reassurance for local ...

On Aug. 13, 1961, Berliners woke up on a Sunday morning to find their city divided by a wall. That day became known as “Barbed Wire Sunday,” marking a peak in the era of the Cold War. It felt like a ...

The front page of The Tennessean on Nov. 10, 1989 declared: "East Germans dance on Wall," and displayed a photo of three men, arm in arm, celebrating on the Berlin Wall. The article described the ...

A segment from the Berlin Wall, one of more than 170 pieces taken from the structure, has a new home in Herefordshire. The ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Germany marked the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Saturday, a pivotal moment in the collapse of communism in ...