It stood for 28 years, painfully dividing East and West Germany. But the Berlin Wall finally came down on November 9, 1989.

• What the world saw as the Berlin Wall was actually two concrete barriers with a 160-yard "death strip" in between that included watchtowers, trenches, runs for guard dogs, flood lights and ...

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 commemorating one of ...

The first breach in the Berlin Wall at 10.30pm on 9 November 1989. East German border guards look on from the ‘Death Strip’ (Brian Harris/The Independent) ...

East Berlin, late November 1987, around midnight. In the basement of an old tenement building, 14-year-old Tim Eisenlohr is stapling pages coming off a printer smuggled in from the West.

Then, a press conference about travel reforms triggered a run on the border and the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 Nov 1989. "The environmental movement was ultimately one piece in the huge mosaic ...

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The wall between East and West Berlin was nearly 12 feet high and approximately 27 miles long, with 302 guard towers and 55,000 anti-personnel explosive devices (landmines).

Hadrian’s Wall, built in 122 CE, is a defensive wall running for 73 miles (or 80 Roman miles) across the very north of England from coast to coast. Archaeologists have been working for many ...

The section of the Berlin Wall that will be restored on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. The 6,338 pound, 9 ½ foot tall piece of the Berlin Wall at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi ...