From hot air balloons to secret tunnels, some tried anything to escape East Berlin. These are the most daring—and ...

East Side Gallery 3-kilometer section of the Berlin Wall. Following the Wall's fall in 1989, artists from around the world came together to transform this bleak structure into a canvas of hope and ...

A section of the Berlin Wall, gifted to Hudson County more than 15 years ago, has finally found its permanent home in Secaucus’ Laurel Hill Park.

How the Berlin Wall Became a 100-Mile Bike and Pedestrian Trail Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin’s symbol of death and division has been turned into a tangible ...

As an infantry company commander in the Army Berlin Brigade, I saw how the fall of the Berlin Wall changed Germany and Europe.

Within Berlin the border consisted of a low-profile inner wall and a 12-foot-high concrete outer wall topped with barbed wire and a rounded, pipe-like surface to discourage grappling hooks.

Remaining segments of the Berlin Wall provide a reminder of the impact this 30-year-long division had on peoples' lives. Read more here.

This truck was rammed through a section of the Berlin Wall in February 1989. Three East Germans inside leapt out, wearing wetsuits, and jumped into the Spree River.

The longest section of Wall remaining in Berlin is the East Side Gallery, where the once-gray concrete slabs are covered with murals that were painted by 118 artists after the opening of the border.

In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist East — spent the year competing to see who could showcase the best ...

Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany’s capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations and official events commemorating one ...