The heavily fortified border —the Berlin Wall— plugged the last gap between East and West. On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched.

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification ...

Hannah Fiedler, an 18-year-old high school graduate from Berlin, said the fact that her family lived in East Germany during ...

The embodiment of the Germany that benefited so much from the open, liberal world after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, ...

Due to an influx of creative types from all over the world, Berlin has become one of the hottest spots on the planet. The ...

In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist ...

Behind the dancers is a West Berlin building covered in scaffolding ... true that the bulk of the reinvention was in the former East Berlin. Among the most famous projects to emerge from the ...

Möllering was 15 years old, living in the leafy West Berlin suburb of Lichterfelde, when an East German bureaucrat by the name of Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced that travel restrictions ...

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East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.

In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist East — spent the year competing to see who could showcase the best ...