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 Berlin Wall, approximately 27 miles long, is dismantled by a crane as East Germany begins to dismantle the wall on Feb. 20, 1990, near the Brandenburg Gate in East Berlin, as a crowd watches.

The Fall of the Berlin Wall. On Nov. 9, 1989, the communist government of East Germany announced that all residents would be permitted to travel to West Berlin and West Germany.

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

AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans – told they were free to travel anywhere – wept, hugged, danced and kissed in both halves of divided Berlin today after East Germany opened its borders for ...

Like many other young women living in communist East Germany, ... Berlin Wall, divide that once shaped German women's lives, echoes today November 09, 2024 4:47 AM By Associated Press; ...

3 A couple look over the wall into East Berlin in April 1983. Salter says the testing of anti-vehicle barriers was only one part of a vast research-and-development effort to trap people inside the ...

Eventually, East Germany erected 27 miles of concrete wall through the city. The Wall was actually two parallel walls punctuated with guard towers and separated by the “death strip,” which ...

On Nov. 9, 1989, East Germany opened the Berlin Wall, allowing travel from East to West Berlin. That night, Germans celebrated the move by tearing the wall down.

The construction of the Berlin Wall began on this day in 1961. It was constructed by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) to prevent residents from escaping to West Berlin. It was ...

As Germany celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago on Nov. 9 1989, women look back at how different their lives were under communism in East and capitalism in West Germany.