30 years after the fall. Hello and welcome to Plugged in. I'm Greta Van Susteren. If walls could talk, the more than 150 kilometers of concrete and barbed wire that once divided the German capital ...

The Berlin Wall was a concrete manifestation of the barrier between democracy and oppression. NPR's Scott Simon marks the 30th anniversary of the day it began to come down.

On August 24, 1961, 11 days after the Berlin Wall was erected, Günter Litfin jumped into the canal-like Spree River. Litfin, from eastern Berlin, had just acquired an apartment and a job in the ...

Reporting from Berlin — For almost 30 years, desperate East Germans tried to drive through it, tunnel under it and fly over it. More than 136 died in the attempt. Less than two years after the ...

After the Berlin Wall Fell. ... The main players that night 20 years ago were the people of East Berlin, who after months of mounting protest, finally called the bluff of the East German authorities.

LAUCHHAMMER, Germany — Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification that followed, more Germans are returning home to the East. Now, small towns in the former Communist ...

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and for 28 years, it stood as the front line of the Cold War between the Western world order, led by the U.S., and the Soviets.

Each piece of the Berlin Wall is enclosed in a package Volker Pawslowski invented himself. courtesy of United1871. Pawlowski, Julian explains, was not the first person to sell pieces of the wall ...

Berlin rings in the anniversary with 200 events in key locations of the city. A new AR app even gives users an interactive experience with the former wall.

In this Nov. 11, 1989, photo, East German border guards are seen through a gap in the Berlin wall after demonstrators pulled down a segment of it at Brandenburg gate. (LIONEL CIRONNEAU/Associated ...