On Nov. 9, 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West for the first ...

The front page of The Tennessean on Nov. 10, 1989 declared: "East Germans dance on Wall," and displayed a photo of three men, ...

But there is another anniversary to which I had something of a front row seat on history: the fall of the Berlin Wall. It happened on Nov. 9, 1989, and for most of us who remembered when it was ...

The Berlin Wall, which divided the city into East and West, was opened for the first time since it was erected on 1989. This marked the beginning of the end for communist regimes in Eastern Europe and ...

The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. But that's not where its story ended: Today, you can find pieces of the wall around ...

Symbolic of the Cold War, the 155-kilometre concrete wall cut the German capital in half and separated its citizens.

LEIPZIG, Germany — A young woman and man are submerged in dry, cracked earth. Only their hands and faces are visible; they seem to be trying to pull themselves out. C Catherine Hickley Follow That ...

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Thirty-five years ago, after 40 years as separate entities, the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was followed by the formal reunification of the two Germanies in October 1990. This allowed ...

The East Berlin-born International Booker winner goes beyond Ostalgie in this series of essays about modern German identity ...