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 ...

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.

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.

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

Built on the orders of East German communist politician Erich Honecker to stem the mass emigration of Germans from East ...

Twenty five years ago Sunday, thousands of Berliners jumped on top of the Berlin Wall as a divisive era came to an end. Five years earlier, Kiddy Citny of West Berlin began to paint the wall with ...

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.

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.