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.

CHECKPOINT Charlie… the name still sends a shiver down the spine of people like me who are old enough to remember the Sixties ...

35 years ago the Berlin wall fell, reuniting Germans who were divided between east and west for nearly three decades. As Berliners poured through holes in the concrete to reach the other side ...

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.

East Berlin, late November 1987, around midnight. In the basement of an old tenement building, 14-year-old Tim Eisenlohr is stapling pages coming off a printer smuggled in from the West.

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 ...

2 A car crossing from East to West Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie in October 1964. The crossing was the only point through which foreigners were permitted to pass. 7 East German soldiers patrolling ...

Berlin's official online portal has faced backlash for claiming the Israeli-Palestinian film No Other Land about Israel's takeover in the occupied West Bank contained "antisemitic tendencies".

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 ...

It looks quite superb on screen – the fashions, the cars, the music – it’s all evocative of a torrid time in world history. The acting is universally exceptional. Barbara Auer, who plays Margot, is ...

an 18-year-old high school graduate from Berlin, said the fact that her family lived in East Germany during the decades of the country's division has no impact on her life today. "East or West ...

BERLIN -- Prominent Russian opposition figures led a march of at least 1,000 people in central Berlin Sunday, criticizing ...