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 ...

When the Berlin Wall came down 25 years ago ... That was 1989. A year later, East and West Germany were officially reunified. Today, East Germany has blossomed into an inviting destination ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...