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Remaining segments of the Berlin Wall provide a reminder of the impact this 30-year-long division had on peoples' lives. Read more here.
As an infantry company commander in the Army Berlin Brigade, I saw how the fall of the Berlin Wall changed Germany and Europe.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
House librarian Tizane Navea-Rogers digs through The Independent’s photography archive and revisits the final days of the Berlin Wall ...
Although little remains of the grandest souvenir of Cold War Berlin, you can retrace its history in the Berlin Wall Memorial.
Video. Germany commemorated the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a stunning art installation in Berlin.
Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the cold war's most infamous border.
On this day in 1989, the Berlin Wall was destroyed, allowing citizens to travel freely from East to West Berlin.