The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop East Germans fleeing to the West. It began as a barbed wire and cinderblock wall and was then fortified as a heavily guarded 160-km (100-mile) white concrete ...

BERLIN, Germany (KLTV/KTRE) - 30 years after the ‘Peaceful Revolution’ led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a unified Germany and the world celebrate this historic moment. Click through the slide show ...

After the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989, pieces of it scattered around the world. These photos show the surprising places the pieces ended up, from the grounds of the Vatican to a bathroom ...

Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the barrier that divided West Berlin from East, and enclosed the West from the rest of East Germany. From 1961 to 1989, the iconic ...

BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin Wall divided the city for 28 years, but most of it was torn down quickly after East Germany opened its border in 1989 . Today, only a few stretches of the 156.4-kilometer ...

It was a defining moment forever etched in the Berlin’s history, “Remember, remember the 9th of November.” This November, we mark the 30th anniversary of one of the most remarkable milestones of the ...

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 ...

Symbolic of the Cold War, the 155-kilometre concrete wall cut the German capital in half and separated its citizens.

Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin’s symbol of death and division has been turned into a tangible way to experience history Joe Baur - Freelance travel writer It’s ...

In the dead of night on August 13, 1961, the East German Army began placing more than 48 kilometers of barbed wire through the center of Berlin, splitting the city into two stark halves. On one side, ...