People visit East Side Gallery a day ahead of the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Berlin, Germany on November 8th, 2024. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

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 ...

The Saturday Essay. The Ordinary People Who Brought Down the Berlin Wall On Nov. 9, 1989, many otherwise unremarkable East Germans made world history—often largely by accident ...

On 9 November 1989, the border between East and West Berlin was opened and the Berlin Wall ... East German border guards could not control the rush of people, and had to step back and watch.

On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. ... The border guards could not control the rush of people so they had no choice but to step back, ...

The Berlin Wall stretched for almost 27 miles across the city and employed landmines, dogs, and barbed wire to discourage escape attempts. Still, over 5,000 people managed to reach western Europe ...

Balloons, tunnels, secret compartments—even homemade aircraft. From 1961 to 1989, desperate East Germans tried everything to break through the Berlin Wall. Some made it. Many didn’t.

BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany's capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations and official events ...

This story originally published on Nov. 10, 1989. It is being republished as part of the commemoration of USA TODAY's 40th anniversary on Sept. 15, 2022. AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans ...

The night the Berlin Wall, divider of Germany and of the world, was brought down, people streamed to climb over it, stand on top of it or rush through it, in shock and jubilation.

In the west it was known as ‘the wall of shame’, built for just one purpose: to keep East Germans in. On the 30th anniversary of its fall, Mick O’Hare returns to 1961 and hears stories from ...

Late Thursday, exultant East Germans began passing through Berlin Wall checkpoints and others entered West Germany at other border crossings. Jubilant people pranced and danced atop the Berlin ...