The Berlin Wall, one of the most powerful symbols of the Cold War was destroyed on November 9th, 1989 the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 during the Cold War as *** way to separate the Soviet ...

The Berlin Wall stood for 10,316 days. As of Feb. 5 ... But at its rise and then at its fall, America’s editors took note. Their writings help us understand the continued relevance of the ...

30 years after the fall ... the wall that night and helped usher in a new era. ((FLORIAN SCHMIDT, BERLIN RESIDENT)) “For me in this moment it was adrenaline and danger…and the days after ...

World Freedom Day observed on Nov. 9 each year, brings back memories of the fall of the Berlin wall, an iconic event that marked the triumph of the U.S. in the decades-spanning Cold War with the ...

open image in gallery East Berlin before the fall: an elderly man carries shopping ... carrying shopping bags filled with potatoes, just two days before the wall fell. “He would have been ...

On this day in 1989, Nesha Starcevic reported for the Associated Press: East Germany opened the Berlin Wall and its other borders Thursday, and its cheering citizens crossed freely to the West for ...

became known as “the day the wall came down.” This story ran on the front page of The Washington Post the next morning. EAST BERLIN, Nov. 9 — Communist East Germany today opened its borders ...

The heavily fortified border —the Berlin Wall ... on that day is considered by many to have ushered the beginning of the end of the Cold War, which culminated with the fall of the Soviet ...

BERLIN — Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall ... lucky day for which we Germans are still grateful today,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz said. Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall stood for ...

(Victor) What had happened before historically is that every ... November 17th. In the days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been an uneasy quiet in Czechoslovakia.

The fall of the Berlin Wall surprised to the world ... It was a full four days after the bloody events, with thousands of fatalities, before the GDR government finally made a statement.