As Germany celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago on Nov. 9 1989, women look back at how different their lives were under communism in East and capitalism in West Germany.

3 A couple look over the wall into East Berlin in April 1983. Salter says the testing of anti-vehicle barriers was only one part of a vast research-and-development effort to trap people inside the ...

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.

It stood for 28 years, painfully dividing East and West Germany. But the Berlin Wall finally came down on November 9, 1989. This is what that day felt like for those who lived through it.

When the Berlin Wall fell, East German “stuff” went to landfills. The nostalgia of identity is creating a new market for communist-era goods.

Near the East German village of Wandlitz, nine miles to the east of Berlin, is a most unusual settlement. ... Before the Wall went up in 1961, East Germany’s economy was on the ropes, ...

Fireworks light the sky during the as musicians play on stage during the concert for freedom for the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the economy in East Germany broadly collapsed as local businesses and companies faltered and unemployment soared.

In the meantime, other students typed out about 500 handbills calling for “Freedom for Red Prague” and began distributing them near the Friedrichstrasse station, one of East Berlin’s busiest ...

Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall stood for 28 years at the front line of the Cold War between the Americans and the Soviets. Germany marks 35th anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall Skip to main ...

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