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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Through the decades the wall was in place, thousands of people managed to escape from East Berlin, but at least 140 were killed in the attempt, many of them shot by East German border guards.

People attend a flower laying ceremony on occasion of the 35th wall anniversary at the grounds of the Berlin Wall Memorial, Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Nov.9, 2024. Credit: AP/Ebrahim Noroozi ...

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.

People stand around a 3-ton section of the Cold War-era Berlin Wall on Aug. 18, 2023. The artifact was placed in the Mexican beach community of Playas de Tijuana by the Berlin-based Falling Walls ...

3 A couple look over the wall into East Berlin in April 1983. Salter says the testing of anti-vehicle barriers was only one part of a vast research-and-development effort to trap people inside the ...

Opinion; To visit the site of the former Berlin Wall is a journey from divided past to thriving present: Justice B. Hill. Published: ; Jun. 30, 2023, 5:30 a.m.

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, ...