Fifty years ago today the Berlin Wall was hastily constructed dividing East Germany from West Germany as Cold War tensions rose. Sanctioned by the communist leader of East Germany, Walter Ulbricht, ...

This is the first program in a three-part series Freedom Without Walls that aired on NPR Specials. Host Frank Bond and a panel of eyewitnesses discuss the building of the Berlin Wall and the tensions ...

Twenty-five years ago Sunday, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev refused to use force when thousands of people from East and West converged to pull down the Berlin Wall. He taught us all a great lesson: ...

Germans from East and West Berlin stand on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Friday, November 10, 1989.(AP Photo File) Like many famous political institutions, the Berlin Wall is ...

BERLIN — Germany marked the 47th anniversary on Wednesday of the Berlin Wall's construction, and the country's parliament speaker said the barrier's ultimate collapse proves that any regime's effort ...

Tijuana’s mayor took a jab at US migrant policies by recently installing a 3-ton gray concrete slab of the Berlin Wall just feet from America’s latest stretch of border wall. “May this be a lesson to ...

Berlin Wall; Cold War; U.S. Army; Berlin; USSR; American Occupied Zone; United States Army Berlin Brigade; USAB ...

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 during a pro-democracy uprising, it signaled the dissolution of East Germany's communist regime, the reunification of Germany, and the end of the decades-old Cold War ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Volker Pawlowski is not much of a philosopher. But in his Berlin warehouse filled with concrete pieces of Berlin Wall neatly stocked in banana boxes, the entrepreneur asserts that ...