It stood for 28 years, painfully dividing East and West Germany. But the Berlin Wall finally came down on November 9, 1989.

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 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 ...

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

Why the Berlin Wall rose—and how it fell. The ugly symbol of the Cold War was built to keep East Germans from escaping to the West. A decades-long fight to flee brought it down.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.