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 ...

The heavily fortified border —the Berlin Wall— plugged the last gap between East and West. On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched.

Berlin, Germany – When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de ...

Like a monstrous guillotine, the wall has slashed the arteries and nerves of Ber lin. ... Sunny weekend weather brought a crowd of West Berlin youths to the border at Markgrafenstrasse.

On June 12, 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, stood before the Brandenburg Gate and exhorted Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to “tear down ...

Germans commemorated on Sunday the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which on Nov. 9, 1989, ended a years-long divide between East and West Germany. Continue reading Nov 07 ...

Outside Berlin, roughly 1,000 people were killed trying to cross into West Germany.) This museum is nowhere as well-presented or thoughtful as the Berlin Wall Memorial, but is itself a piece of ...

The wall has also molded Berlin’s populace. The wall caused a sudden labor shortage in both halves of the city when it was erected in 1961, and invited substitute workers poured in. (West Berlin ...

Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, ... 3 Children in West Berlin in 1968 playing alongside the wall that cut Sebastian Street in half. Then. Now.

Berlin: The Wall; Berlin: The Wall. 25 minute read. TIME. August 25, 1961 12:00 AM GMT-4 ... 16,500 sought haven in West Berlin; the refugees included an East German Supreme Court judge, ...