The imposing wall that divided East Germany from the West was constructed in August 1961, and began to fall November 9, 1989. 13 iconic photos of the Berlin Wall coming down 27 years ago Skip to ...

Hour by hour, the story grew in excitement: rumors abounded that the Berlin Wall could very well be coming down within days. So that morning, about 5 a.m., with no assignment, I jumped on a plane ...

These incredible pictures showing a 15-year-old boy's escape across the Berlin Wall were taken by an off-duty American soldier who happened be on the spot taking photos of life in East Germany.

A segment of the Berlin Wall, which was painted by French-born, Berlin-based artist Thierry Noir, is pictured at The Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War in Culver City, California September ...

Now that barrier was coming down. I actually got word that the Berlin Wall fell late Thursday, November 9th, 1989, as I walked into the New York 6th Avenue newsroom of my then-employer (later to ...

In the next few days, I suspect we'll see a lot of photos and videos of the Berlin Wall coming down -- 25 years ago this Sunday. But we probably will not see many pictures of Mikhail Gorbachev ...

Through the decades the wall was in place, thousands of people managed to escape from East Berlin, but at least 140 were killed in the attempt, many of them shot by East German border guards.

The wall, which was built in August 1961, came down Nov. 9, 1989. To commemorate that event, the American-German association will "tear down" a section of this newly built wall on Nov. 9. Part of ...

Hour by hour, the story grew in excitement: rumors abounded that the Berlin Wall could very well be coming down within days. So that morning, about 5 a.m., with no assignment, I jumped on a plane ...

The Berlin Wall fell 27 years ago Wednesday. The imposing wall that divided East and West Germany was constructed in August 1961, and began to fall November 9, 1989. The wall, also known as the DDR, ...

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 ...