The wall is built in August 1961. Photo: DPA. 58 years ago today, August 13th 1961, the first border fences were erected around the border of West Berlin, in what would quickly become the Berlin Wall.

Now, almost 60 years later, a replica of the original wall will be erected in central Berlin as part of an experimental art project titled Dau: Freedom.Although the project is yet to be green-lit ...

30 Years After The Fall of the Berlin Wall, More Barriers Are Being Built Than Ever Before But wherever you build a wall, people will always try to get over – or under it, journalist Helena ...

In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, ... And, of course, new things are being built there as well.

On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. Find out more about this important moment in history and why the wall was built and how it divided a city, a country and a continent.

The East German-built Berlin Wall divided the city's communist East from the democratic West from 1961 to 1989. Its demolition began in 1990 and only a few original stretches remain in place today ...

The most famous wall of modern times was, unusually, built to keep people in, rather than out. Describe the Berlin Wall’s historical context — the Iron Curtain —and the mythology it inspired ...

For nearly three decades, from 1961 to 1989, much of the Western world viewed the Berlin Wall as a symbol for the evils of Communism. Another 30 years have passed and that view of the Wall has ...

Sixty-five countries around the world have some kind of wall or barrier along their borders. I knew about Trump’s proposed wall, and the barrier in the West Bank. But I didn’t know about the ...