It’s difficult to imagine what this city was like in the early 1960s, when the 87-mile-long Berlin Wall was intact and bristling with barbed wire and gun emplacements. Today, the wall has ...

Berlin has quirky artifacts from East-West divide 30 years after the wall came down, the German capital is mostly reunited ...

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.

The East German regime refused to renew the annual permits under which West German barges deliver 1,500,000 tons of supplies to West Berlin.

On this day in 1989, the Berlin Wall was destroyed, allowing citizens to travel freely from East to West Berlin.

In 1961, the Soviet-backed government did the only thing it could think of to prevent East Germans from escaping: it built the Berlin Wall.

Nov. 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the iconic barrier that completely enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989 and symbolized the height of Cold War tensions.

Attractions are spread out along the old political boundaries of east and west Berlin, with most of the popular sights on the city's east side.