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 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.

Some 22 months after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall to prevent mass emigration to the West, Kennedy went to West Berlin where he famously said: “Ich bin ein Berliner ...

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.

Some anniversaries are truly worth celebrating. When the Berlin Wall came down 25 years ago, we saw rubble remaining from World War II and ugly gray ...

After the Berlin Wall came down, 18 million people in East Germany were — for the first time in more than 40 years — able to travel as widely as they could afford; express political opinions ...

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 ...

BERLIN, Nov. 9, 1989 (UPI) -- The East German government Thursday dropped all restrictions on travel to the West, and thousands of citizens of the communist state flocked to the Berlin Wall, the ...

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

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.

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.

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 ...