On Nov. 9, 1989, in East Germany ... Berlin Wall went around the world, along with another more sobering image: a long cavalcade of Trabants, the noisy and polluting East German car, snaking into ...

At midnight on this day in 1961, units of the East German army began to close the border between East and West Berlin. Troops and workers tore up streets running alongside the border to make them ...

BERLIN — Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall ... life in the east of the city. During the Cold War, the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin to Potsdam in East Germany was famously ...

Communist East ... of the West and to stem the tide of people fleeing Germany. It cut through the middle of the city center and surrounded West Berlin. But not even barbed wire and the Wall ...

BERLIN, Nov. 9, 1989 (UPI) -- The East German government Thursday dropped all restrictions on travel to the West, and thousands of citizens of the communist state flocked to the Berlin Wall, the ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall that separated West and East Berlin from Aug. 13, 1961, to Nov. 9, 1989, is known as the monumental event that marked the end of the Cold War. The following year ...

Erected in haste and torn down in protest, the Berlin Wall was almost 27 ... Berlin was located about 90 miles east from the border between the GDR and West Germany and completely surrounded ...

As the country prepares to mark three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German ... told me that "the problems in East Germany are bigger than in the West" and said that there needed ...

When the Berlin Wall fell, West-German Neo-Nazis – the generation before Höcke (who was, incidentally, born and raised in West-Germany) moved into East-Germany. These Neo-Nazis tapped into the ...

For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from fleeing. Independent producers Carl… On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

In a life that crisscrossed the East-West border that ... from re-entry to East Germany. Image Demonstrators in Leipzig, East Germany, in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall Fell.