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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall fell. East Germans kept away from loved ones for 28 years swarmed past the wall's suddenly unguarded checkpoints. An Orange County doctor was living in Germany ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This 1962 film documents Germany and the city of Berlin after World War II. It highlights the factors that led to the division of Germany and the ...

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 ...