A section of the Berlin Wall will be publicly auctioned in front of the Suwanee City Hall on May 25. It will be the first time a significant section of the wall is available to the public – most ...

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.

Cyclists pass a preserved section of the Berlin Wall. Adam Eastland/Alamy. It’s impossible to make out the tourists from the locals on a sunny Sunday afternoon at Mauerpark––the 37-acre ...

Nov. 4, 2009 -- FULTON, Mo. — Twenty years after it fell, the Berlin Wall has spread around the world, ... had the section brought here and cut out holes in the shapes of a man and a woman.

(CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a ...

For nearly 30 years the Berlin Wall divided Germany’s biggest city in two, just as a heavily fortified fence cut all of East Germany off from the West.

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.

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 ...

Where to stay. Hotel de Rome, a 145-room, five-star hotel that was a bank in the 1880s, has one of the best locations in Berlin: Its windows look directly onto the pink-hued Berlin State Opera.An ...