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 ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

Germany marked 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell with festivities on Saturday under the theme "Preserve Freedom!", against the somber backdrop of war in Gaza and Ukraine, and fears that democracy is ...

FILE - East Berliners get helping hands from West Berliners as they climb the Berlin Wall, which divided the city since the end of World War II, near the Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate), Nov. 10, ...

A segment from the Berlin Wall, one of more than 170 pieces taken from the structure, has a new home in Herefordshire. The 3.6m (12ft) chunk that weighs 2.6 tonnes (2,600kg) has been positioned at ...

The night the Berlin Wall, divider of Germany and of the world, was brought down, people streamed to climb over it, stand on top of it or rush through it, in shock and jubilation. Others came with ...

The Berlin Wall began as a border of barbed wire fencing and evolved into a fortified concrete barrier with armed East German border guards. East Germany militarized the entire border with the West, ...

The German president called for the defense of democracy on the anniversary of several fateful events. This comes as the coalition government seems to be teetering ...

BERLIN — Like many other young women living in communist East Germany, Solveig Leo thought nothing about juggling work and motherhood. The mother of two was able to preside over a large state-owned ...

A 260-foot piece of the Berlin wall in a forest in Berlin on Jan. 24, 2018. The recently discovered remnant of the Berlin Wall from the heavily fortified border’s early days is being given protected ...

Show more Show less November 9, 1989 is commemorated as the day East Germany's dictatorship opened the borders to the West Artworks on the theme of freedom stand in front of the Brandenburg Gate in ...