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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.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall in Photos: An Accident of History That Changed The World The Communist regime was prepared for everything “except candles and prayers.” ...
Photos -- most of which never ran in LIFE magazine -- of the earliest days of the brutal divide and ultimate Cold War symbol.
The Berlin Wall came tumbling down on November 9, 1989, reuniting East and West Germany, and foreshadowing the fall of the Soviet Union.
The Berlin Wall — the infamous landmark of separated Europe — fell Nov. 9, 1989 after dividing Communist East Berlin from capitalist West Berlin for more than 28 years.
Powerful photos of the Berlin Wall capture its historical significance and the emotions surrounding its fall.
On Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014, a quarter century will have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. While Germany and the world celebrates the pivotal moment which symbolically ended the Cold War and ...
It’s hard to believe that it has been 30 years since half a million people gathered in East Berlin to demand democracy, with the fall of the Berlin Wall 28 years later. Museums in Berlin are ...
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.
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… ...
Built on the orders of East German communist politician Erich Honecker to stem the mass emigration of Germans from East ...
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.