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.

West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall, Nov. 11, 1989, as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall in order to open a new crossing point between East and ...

Read CNN’s Berlin Wall Fast Facts and learn more about the symbol of the Cold War and East/West relations. The Wall stood from 1961 to 1989.

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 ...

On August 12-13, 1961, the Berlin Wall was born. It appeared literally overnight. Barbed wire was strung across the border between East and West Berlin, cutting off access either way.

Basically, West Berlin was an island, but there were air routes, road routes, and rail routes, and if you could get to West Berlin, you could get to West Germany and escape. You were a student in West ...

In the west it was known as ‘the wall of shame’, built for just one purpose: to keep East Germans in. On the 30th anniversary of its fall, Mick O’Hare returns to 1961 and hears stories from ...

Two million East Germans poured through the open border into West Germany within 48 hours of the Berlin Wall bursting open. After a week, more than half the country’s 16 million pent-up people ...

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

Kolski, who grew up in West Berlin, got the idea when he learned Apple phones would be equipped with AR technology around 2 1/2 years ago: "When I saw that, I thought this is the future, basically ...

Germans from East and West Berlin stand on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Friday, November 10, 1989. (AP Photo File) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 ...