In the early 1960s, LIFE magazine’s photographers chronicled the construction of the Berlin Wall and, once it was built, its effect on residents living in the newly divided city. The Soviets and ...

On the fiftieth anniversary marking the erection of the Berlin Wall, Annett Gröschner and Arwed Messmer present The Other View: The Early Berlin Wall as both a book and as an exhibition (August ...

Moellering said it was the fall of the Wall that made Berlin the capital of cool. He said in the early 1990s "Berlin was a bit like the Wild West . . . because the East German police, they didn't ...

Anna Kaminsky, whose family was separated during the Cold War by the Berlin Wall in 1961, remembers her family's heartrending story and talks about her experience, her book and her own attempts to ...

A day that began in mournful contemplation ended in a raucous street party for hundreds of thousands as Germany marked the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Wall entered the history books in 1961. It stood for 28 years as a stark testament to the differences between life on one side of that wall and the other. Hard to believe it's been 25 ...

BERLIN — Günter-Schabowski, the former East German Communist Party official who accidentally announced the opening of the border between East and West Berlin when responding to a reporter's ...

The Berlin Wall, which came down 25 years ago, split the great German city, separating friends and families.

Regardless of how far from Germany the wall segments travel, the message, said curators and historians, always hits close to home.

(Thanks to a RIAS fellowship, I was lucky enough to visit Berlin for the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall five years ago. With Sunday’s 25th anniversary now upon us, I’ve ...

For anyone who saw it firsthand, as I did, the Berlin Wall was never just a wall. It was half a century of epic global conflict distilled into impenetrable concrete. In the city that had launched ...

(See Cover) The scream of sirens and the clank ot steel on cobblestones echoed down the mean, dark streets. Frightened East Berliners peeked from behind their curtains to see military convoys ...