Exactly 30 years ago – on Nov. 9, 1989 – the occupants of Berlin tore down the wall that divided their city, marking the beginning of the end for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and nearby ...

Referring to the Berlin Wall as an “antifascist protective rampart” (Antifaschistischer Schutzwall), officials claimed the wall was necessary to protect citizens of the German Democratic Republic (GDR ...

Nearly everyone is familiar today with President Ronald Reagan’s demand, delivered in Berlin in June 1987, that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev “tear down this wall.” They may not be aware of his ...

Berlin – 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. Leaders from Germany, Poland, ...

Germany marked 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell with festivities on Saturday under the theme "Preserve Freedom!", against the somber backdrop of war in Gaza and Ukraine, and fears that democracy is ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

At an event marking the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Saturday, the city's mayor, Kai Wegner, said November 9 remains a fateful day for Germany - both in a positive and negative ...