Today, after decades of being nearly devoured by persistent “wall-peckers,” little remains of the grandest souvenir of Cold ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification ...

Former dissidents, released secret service files and a zine in an East Berlin basement reveal a little-known chapter of Cold ...

If rails can become trails, why not borders?' asks Joe Baur as he explores the trail which grew from the scar of an infamous, ...

Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of ...

What began as confusion soon turned to celebration as Berliners from both east and west flooded the streets, chipping away at ...

Berlin, Germany’s capital, is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall this Friday and Saturday (November 8 ...

Germany marks 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell with festivities from Saturday under the theme "Preserve Freedom!" as ...

East Germany’s leadership had already sealed off the country’s main frontier with West Germany, snaking from the Baltic Sea ...

The wall, which separated East and West Germany, stood for 28 years before it was torn down in 1989. #EuropeNews ...

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

When the Berlin Wall was constructed in August 1961, it stood as a visible wound marking the world’s ideological split. After ...