The Berlin Wall stretched for almost 27 miles across the city and employed landmines, dogs, and barbed wire to discourage escape attempts. Still, over 5,000 people managed to reach western Europe ...

Could you have done it? One family zip-lined to freedom -- in a home-crafted zip line. A woman escaped hiding in a hollowed-out surfboard strapped atop her car. Two other families made it in an ...

Bullish - Video. World War II: The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany. Posted: April 16, 2025 | Last updated: July 10, 2025. The film chronicles the history of Berlin from 1939 to the 1960s ...

Behind a nondescript steel door next to a busy subway platform in Berlin, a hidden passage leads to an underground complex straight out of the Cold War: a concrete bunker designed to shelter ...

East Side Gallery 3-kilometer section of the Berlin Wall. Following the Wall's fall in 1989, artists from around the world came together to transform this bleak structure into a canvas of hope and ...

the wall divides berlin: 1961-1989 August 13, 1961: The border between East and West Berlin is closed and a long-planned Soviet operation to divide the city swings into action.

From the Aug. 31, 1962, issue of TIME. For a structure that stood only about 12 ft. high, the Berlin Wall left quite a mark on modern history. Throughout the 28 years during which it endured, TIME ...

On the morning of Aug. 20, 1961, Col. Glover S. Johns Jr. telephoned the White House with the news that the first American reinforcements had crossed into Berlin.

An unsettling feeling would come over him, however, as he walked through the desolate city, damage from World War II still visible. “There was a sense that you were always under surveillance when you ...

The Berlin Wall stretched for almost 27 miles across the city and employed landmines, dogs, and barbed wire to discourage escape attempts. Still, over 5,000 people managed to reach western Europe ...