25 years before it came down 20 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, photographer Arwed Messmer found photos taken by East German patrol agents during 1965 and 1966 looking toward the West.

The Berlin Wall came tumbling down on November 9, 1989, reuniting East and West Germany, and foreshadowing the fall of the Soviet Union. It stood for 28 years to separate the two sides of Berlin ...

Paul Schutzer—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images West Berlin children, from left, Peter Friedrich, 5, Katrin Kuhl, 4, and Jurgen Bottcher, 8, build a pretend Berlin Wall in a vacant lot in ...

After 28 years the Berlin Wall makes no more sense. (Photo by dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images) Getty Images. GDR citizens queue to receive their welcome money in West Berlin, ...

The Berlin Wall divided the German city from 1961 until 1989. It became a symbol of the deep political divisions that split Europe between the so-called capitalist West and the Communist East.

BERLIN — When Werner Krätschell, an East German pastor and dissident, heard that the Berlin Wall was open, he did not quite believe it. But he grabbed his daughter and her friend and drove to ...

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.

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 ...

The Berlin Wall is seen in 1961, the year it was built, at Potsdamer Platz, in Berlin. ... A man takes pictures of East Germany on Nov. 15, 1989, through the cracks of the Berlin Wall.

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.

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.

A combination photo shows tourists posing in front of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg gate in Berlin on June 6, 1989 (l.) and a general view of the Brandenburg gate on July 14, 2009. 16 of 23 ...