The wall divided friends ... on 24 August 1961. Like many East Germans, he worked in West Berlin and had woken up little over a week before to find his livelihood as an apprentice tailor destroyed.

The Germans were used to their land being divided ... the cheering crowd. The wall did its job. The day before it went up, 2,400 East Germans crossed into West Berlin. But in the 28 years that ...

BERLIN — Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German capital ... commuter railways and trams — was strictly divided between East and West until reunification.

BERLIN -- For 10,680 days, the Mathias and Scherbach families lived on opposite sides of the "anti-fascist protective rampart," otherwise know as the Berlin Wall. From the Landwer Canal, in their ...

11 People stream through a breach in the wall on November 11 after East German soldiers were ordered to stand aside, effectively ending the physical divide between East and West Berlin.

Imagine it's 1966, and you're living in East Berlin, a city divided by the infamous Berlin Wall. The East German government, ...

Situated near the former border between East and West Berlin, it played a central role in the city's divided history. Once ...

The two countries remained divided until Nov. 9 ... Citizens scale the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, in West Berlin. East Berlin citizens are welcomed by the crowd as they enter West Berlin ...

I did, however, want to see what East Berlin and West Berlin would look like ... in my mind what I recall about the divided city, about the day when the wall fell there. Thanks to a former student ...

Smekta, who was visiting the divided city of Berlin with a ... “I saw for myself the weeping wall that divides East and West Berlin,” Smekta said when he returned to Rochester.

In the former East, 74% of women are working, compared to 71.5% in the West, according to a 2023 study by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung foundation. Stay informed on what is happening in Clark County ...