East Germany on Thursday night opened both the Berlin Wall, the most dramatic and bitter symbol of the Cold War, and its border with West Germany to all of its citizens for the first time in 28 years.

The Fall of the Berlin Wall. On Nov. 9, 1989, the communist government of East Germany announced that all residents would be permitted to travel to West Berlin and West Germany.

The Berlin Wall, approximately 27 miles long, is dismantled by a crane as East Germany begins to dismantle the wall on Feb. 20, 1990, near the Brandenburg Gate in East Berlin, as a crowd watches.

Some anniversaries are truly worth celebrating. When the Berlin Wall came down 25 years ago, we saw rubble remaining from World War II and ugly gray ...

BERLIN, Nov. 9, 1989 (UPI) -- The East German government Thursday dropped all restrictions on travel to the West, and thousands of citizens of the communist state flocked to the Berlin Wall, the ...

According to the Berlin Wall Memorial Foundation, East Germany had lost a sixth of its population by August 1961. To counter this trend, the barrier system evolved, incorporating new methods and ...

LAUCHHAMMER, Germany — Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification that followed, more Germans are returning home to the East. Now, small towns in the former Communist ...

In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo students walk around a column in the Carl-von-Ossietzky school in Berlin, Germany, where in 1988 a 'speakers corner' was situated.

June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan stood before Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and challenged the Soviet leader, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." In 1989, the gates opened and east Germans flooded ...

As Germany celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago on Nov. 9 1989, women look back at how different their lives were under communism in East and capitalism in West Germany.

Although updated and reinforced many times, the Berlin Wall is the product of another era, ... along with 74.5 miles of wall separating West Berlin from the rest of East Germany.