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 ...

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.

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 ...

Why German divisions remain, 30 years after fall of the Berlin Wall. It's been 30 years since one of the 20th century's biggest historic events: the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The fall of the Berlin Wall that separated West and East Berlin from Aug. 13, 1961, to Nov. 9, 1989, is known as the monumental event that marked the end of the Cold War. The following year Germany… ...

Immigration. Berlin Wall relic gets ‘second life’ on U.S.-Mexico border as Biden adds barriers Shards of the Berlin Wall scattered worldwide after it crumbled in 1989, with collectors putting ...