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 Communist regime was prepared for everything “except candles and prayers.” East Germany’s peaceful 1989 revolution showed that societies that don’t reform, die.

On 9 November 1989, the border between East and West Berlin was opened and the Berlin Wall - which had divided the city for almost 30 years - was finally torn down. These pictures show what ...

Hundreds of thousands of people tried to overcome the Berlin Wall during its near 30-year existence. While 5,000 made it, over a hundred died trying.

Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the cold war's most infamous border.

Activists from the former Letzte Generation group, now calling themselves Neue Generation, have written the words 'Stop genocide' on the famous Bruderkuss mural in Berlin's East Side Gallery, which is ...

In pictures: The fall of the Berlin Wall, 28 years later Today marks the 28th anniversary of the fall of one of history's most famous divides. Published - November 09, 2017 06:03 pm IST ...

Wet and cold, I took lots of pictures and had no idea at the time that one frame would become so famous. Men hammering through the Wall as E. German guards fire water cannon through the crack ...

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.

The Berlin Wall is gone, ... a famous stretch of the wall still standing and painted with murals. Visitors can also click on photo icons to see pictures of pieces of the Domino Wall, ...

Wet and cold, I took lots of pictures and had no idea at the time that one frame would become so famous. Men hammering through the Wall as E. German guards fire water cannon through the crack ...