The Wall stood from 1961 to 1989. It was meant to stop Germans from fleeing the communist East to the more prosperous West ...

On this day in 1961, soldiers in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) began construction on the Berlin Wall – ...

For nearly 30 years the Berlin Wall divided Germany 's biggest city in two, just as a heavily fortified fence cut all of East Germany off from the West. Within Berlin the border consisted of a low ...

In 2019, the Bundestag voted to create a memorial for the victims of communism. Progress on the project has stalled, but ...

East German workers piercing the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz on Nov. 13, 1989. The fall of the wall forced many East Germans to reassess what they had been taught about history.

Germany's annual Unity Day celebration was marked by protests. BERLIN -- The world was watching on Nov. 9, 1989, when east Berliners climbed over the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate ...

When the Berlin Wall was completed in August 1961, East German residents immediately tried to figure out ways to circumvent the barrier and escape into West Berlin. By the following ...

What's left of the wall transcends the Cold War. Nov. 4, 2009 -- FULTON, Mo. — Twenty years after it fell, the Berlin Wall has spread around the world, morphing en route from an instrument of ...