All along the Berlin Wall, Christmas music was playing. Communist border guards on their best behavior helped old women and toddling children onto Eastbound streetcars, and down the empty ...

Tens of thousands of people gathered under the Brandenburg Gate in Germany's capital Berlin early on January 1 to usher in ...

For the anniversary celebrations on Saturday ... It stands along a four-kilometre stretch of the former wall in downtown ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the Gdansk shipyards”. As to his presence in the celebrations he said “I am a politician who played an important role ...

Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. News Wrap: Anonymous official’s book ...

In “We the People,” British historian Timothy Garton Ash described the opening of the Berlin Wall as “a moment of emancipation and liberation.” Ron Zuriel, a Jewish photography enthusiast ...

In 1982, a Turkish immigrant started a garden near the Berlin wall on a patch of East German land. Osman Kalin fiercely defended his small domain from any authorities who tried to take it away.

Injuries and deaths from powerful fireworks across Germany over the New Year holiday have again prompted debate about new ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...