the Berlin Wall was a heavily guarded barrier that physically and ideologically divided the city from 1961 to 1989. In a wider context, the wall came to symbolize the "Iron Curtain" that separated ...

Getty Images German Culture Commissioner Monika ... Brian Hanrahan reports on the rapid developments that led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall At Thursday's ceremony German Commissioner for ...

Who would have known a holiday trip to Germany in December 1989, would have offered an opportunity to be an eyewitness to, ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the Gdansk shipyards”. As to his presence in the celebrations he said “I am a politician who played an important role ...

In fact, it was the creation of the wall that brought the garden into existence. Getty Images Berlin residents at the newly-erected Wall at the district border Kreuzberg/Mitte - August 1961 ...

In “We the People,” British historian Timothy Garton Ash described the opening of the Berlin Wall as “a moment of emancipation and liberation.” Ron Zuriel, a Jewish photography enthusiast ...

In addition to the WWII history on display here, you’ll also see part of the Berlin Wall in the front of the building. Other interesting exhibits that detail Berlin between 1933 and 1945 are ...

Frank Thiel is a contemporary German photographer whose large-scale color images documenting the shifting social and political landscape of post-wall Berlin. Over the course of his entire career, ...

As the world observes the 20th anniversary of the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Professor of History and University Scholar James F. Tent, Ph.D., is available ...

Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. News Wrap: Anonymous official’s book ...