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 Germany… ...

Nov. 9 is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It seems like yesterday when this most visible and recognizable symbol of the Cold War in Europe ceased to exist as a barrier between ...

BERLIN -- Although the Berlin Wall came down 30 years ago, suddenly it was standing again -- on the cellphone of developer Peter Kolski. The AR app recreates all 100 miles of the wall around what ...

On August 24, 1961, 11 days after the Berlin Wall was erected, Günter Litfin jumped into the canal-like Spree River. Litfin, from eastern Berlin, had just acquired an apartment and a job in the ...

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 of ...

The Berlin Wall, which as of Feb. 5 has been down for longer than it was up — 10,316 days — was a brilliant expression of the power of oppression.

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 during the Cold War to separate the Soviet-controlled East and the Democratic West. The wall, made of concrete and barbed wire, stood for 28 years.

A closer look at the 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab. AP. The Berlin Wall piece currently stands near a new construction project approved by the Biden administration which seeks to complete ...

BERLIN -- In the Berlin neighborhood of Pankow, a 196-foot stretch of the Berlin wall has been torn down to make way for condominiums, sparking the ire of historians.