Historians are concerned as more of the wall disappears over time. BERLIN -- In the Berlin neighborhood of Pankow, a 196-foot stretch of the Berlin wall has been torn down to make way for ...

On November 9, 1989, a most extraordinary thing happened: The Berlin Wall was torn down by ordinary people. Decades later, the world’s a very different place, and the remnants of the wall are ...

West-Berliners hacking pieces of the Berlin Wall on November 11, 1989. The GDR joined the federal ... which in 2014 was estimated to supply around 90% of Berlin’s gift shops.

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.

BERLIN, Nov. 9, 2009 — -- Anna Kaminsky is a child of the wall. She was born behind the wall, raised behind the wall and gave birth behind the wall. "My family is a divided family," she said.

It will be 50 years ago Saturday that construction began on the Berlin Wall. The barrier that divided East and West Berlin eventually grew to be 27 miles long. In one area in the center of the ...

Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. News Wrap: Anonymous official’s book ...

The Berlin Wall stood for 20,315 days. For 28 years it separated the city into two. More importantly, it divided the world. This is a piece of the Berlin Wall, ...

Marc Kusnetz, an NBC News producer, spent the night of Nov. 9, 1989, watching a joyous crowd attack the wall that had trapped them for 28 years. When he returned to his hotel room the following ...

But this wasn’t the only getaway Rudolph would orchestrate, writes Helena Merriman in “Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Incredible Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall” (Public Affairs), out Aug. 24.

For nearly three decades, from 1961 to 1989, much of the Western world viewed the Berlin Wall as a symbol for the evils of Communism. Another 30 years have passed and that view of the Wall has ...