Little of the Berlin Wall survives today in the German capital. The onetime barrier between East and West has been torn down, chipped away or auctioned off. Between 1961 and 1989, the formidable ...

A man attacked the Berlin Wall with a pickaxe on the night of Nov. 9, 1989 as news spread rapidly that the East German Government would now start granting exit visas to anyone who wanted to go to ...

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.

Berlin's appearance has changed enormously since the fall on Nov. 9, 1989 of the Berlin Wall, which for nearly three decades divided the communist east from the city's west — a capitalist ...

Now a Cold War relic covered in street art and surrounded by bustling modern Berlin, the Berlin Wall has now been down longer than it was up. For just over 28 years, it stood (August 1961 until ...

For 28 years, two months and 27 days the Berlin Wall divided a city. Today marks the day Germany's capital has been reunited longer than it was divided.

Now, nearly 35 years after the Wall fell, with old divisions cropping up once again in Germany and the wider world, the story ...

The Berlin Wall has now been torn down for nearly as long (22 years) as it stood (28 years). Yet it was such a powerful symbol of the Cold War that it still evokes a strong response today, a half ...

As Germany celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I can’t help remembering my spooky 1971 visit during the Cold War. When we crossed back to the West, tour buses were ...

Little of the Berlin Wall survives today in the German capital. The onetime barrier between East and West has been torn down, chipped away or auctioned off. Between 1961 and 1989, the formidable ...