Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

The 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall earlier this month received little attention ... but for some, the ...

After growing up in the Communist-controlled police state of East Germany, Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of Germany for ...

Watch: The moment the Berlin Wall fell... and a party erupted The ... under the grip of the Socialist Unity Party but momentum was building and by 4 November 1989, half a million citizens had ...

The night the Berlin Wall, divider of Germany and of the world ... Often, parts of it were used as building material. But tourists are still lining up to buy remnants, 35 years on, whether ...

The Berlin Wall divided Germany for almost 30 years. It tore families apart and destroyed lives. Both the construction and the fall of the Wall were key moments in German history -- and beyond.

The Berlin Wall is seen in 1961 ... the East German parliament building, on Oct. 7, 1989, where Soviet Union leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev attended a reception. Several thousand young people ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches ... the political and historical context that led to the wall’s construction, its fall and the reunification of Germany.

Berlin’s East Side Gallery is a long stretch of wall segments muraled shortly after ... the past as history weary Berlin is contemporized. Construction projects are ubiquitous as old, weird ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact of the Wall on international relations Test your knowledge In the late 1950s, issues around Berlin sparked off one of the ...