This aerial view shows Potsdamer Platz with West Berlin at left and East Berlin at right in Germany, Aug. 9, 1962. John Gaps III | AP A West Berliner swings at the wall on Nov. 12, 1989.

The Berlin Wall — the infamous landmark of separated Europe — fell Nov. 9, 1989 after dividing Communist East Berlin from capitalist West Berlin for more than 28 years.

In this Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019 photo a little traffic-light man is pictured in front of the Berlin TV Tower, left, and the 'Rotes Rathaus' (red townhall), right, in Berlin, Germany.

The Berlin Wall came tumbling down on November 9, 1989, reuniting East and West Germany, and foreshadowing the fall of the Soviet Union. It stood for 28 years to separate the two sides of Berlin ...

This is Berlin at its most haunting, captured on camera in a series of fascinating images by British photographer Allan Hailstone, who visited the east and west sides between 1959 and 1966.

In this Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019 photo a little traffic-light man is pictured in front of the Berlin TV Tower, left, and the 'Rotes Rathaus' (red townhall), right, in Berlin, Germany.

In some ways, Berlin is still divided 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Seen from space, the city's lights show a stark contrast, with orange lights in the east and white lights in the west.

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.

The Berlin Wall divided the German city from 1961 until 1989. It became a symbol of the deep political divisions that split Europe between the so-called capitalist West and the Communist East. The ...

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.

Imagine it's 1966, and you're living in East Berlin, a city divided by the infamous Berlin Wall. The East German government, ...