-- The Berlin Wall came down 25 years ago today. Built in the middle of the night Aug. 13, 1961, the wall divided East and West Germany for 28 years to stop East Germans from leaving the Soviet ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

THE Fall of the Berlin Wall happened 30 years ago today. Why was the Berlin Wall built and when did the wall come down? Here's what we know.

Amazing, Rare Photographs of the Berlin Wall Coming Down Photojournalist Alexandra Avakian traveled to Berlin based on rumor, and she ended up becoming a witness to history ...

BERLIN – “There is such a lot of unbelievable things here,” 27 year-old Jay Baumgarten told me. Jay was the first newcomer from the East I spoke with in West Berlin after the Berlin Wall ...

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.

David Bowie’s 1987 concert in West Berlin could be heard on the other side of the wall in Eastern Germany.

On this day in 1989, the Berlin Wall was destroyed, allowing citizens to travel freely from East to West Berlin.

Amazing, Rare Photographs of the Berlin Wall Coming Down Photojournalist Alexandra Avakian traveled to Berlin based on rumor, and she ended up becoming a witness to history ...