East Germany on Thursday night opened both the Berlin Wall, the most dramatic and bitter symbol of the Cold War, and its border with West Germany to all of its citizens for the first time in 28 years.

West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall, Nov. 11, 1989, as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall in order to open a new crossing point between East and ...

The Fall of the Berlin Wall. On Nov. 9, 1989, the communist government of East Germany announced that all residents would be permitted to travel to West Berlin and West Germany.

The fall of the Berlin Wall that separated West and East Berlin from Aug. 13, 1961, to Nov. 9, 1989, is known as the monumental event that marked the end of the Cold War. The following year ...

BERLIN — The walls of the Bornholmer Huette pub were last painted in 1973, a light beige that has gradually cracked and darkened into a caramel brown from decades of cigarette smoke.

West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall early Nov. 11, 1989, as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall between East and West Berlin.

When the wall came down in 1990, East Berlin was a dour warren of bombed-out buildings, courtyards filled with rusty cars, ... Now East and West are virtually indistinguishable, ...

BERLIN — Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German capital — divided for decades by bricks and barbed wire — has slowly grown back together. Few visible scars remain other ...

People gather near a part of the Berlin Wall that was broken down after the communist German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) decision to open borders between East and West Berlin, Berlin, West ...

With Khrushchev`s blessing, East German leader Erich Honecker started construction of a 27.9-mile wall across the city, along with 74.5 miles of wall separating West Berlin from the rest of East ...

About three months after the Nov. 9, 1989, opening of the Berlin Wall, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl spoke of wanting quick German reunification - saying it could come as early as 1995, said ...