On August 24, 1961, 11 days after the Berlin Wall was erected, Günter Litfin jumped into the canal-like Spree River. Litfin, from eastern Berlin, had just acquired an apartment and a job in the ...

But he hasn't forgotten the fateful night the Berlin wall came down 30 years ago ... When he saw himself immortalized above the well-known crossing point, he was "shocked." ...

A new travel law mistakenly announced on Nov. 9, 1989, led to an onslaught of people to rush the Berlin Wall. The Bornholmer Strasse crossing in Berlin was the first to open that night.

The former border crossing at Bornholmer Strasse may have ... a graffiti-sprawled hulk of concrete, a remnant of the Berlin Wall, stands a few meters back from the road, separating the sidewalk ...

The crossing was the only point through which foreigners were permitted to pass. 7 East German soldiers patrolling along the wall near Berlin's train station in September 1987. The buffer between ...

The Berlin Wall began as a border of barbed wire fencing ... The most famous border crossing was known as Checkpoint Charlie. Timeline February 4-11, 1945 - In the face of Germany’s defeat ...

AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans – told they were ... But on TV he asked people to wait before crossing. "Even with all the understandable joy you must feel ... please do it tomorrow ...

East German border guards look on from the ‘Death Strip’ (Brian Harris/The Independent) Harris had his winning shot but was blocked from crossing back into West Berlin. The wall was literally ...

But though the wall stood between 1961 and 1989 ... At one point, 1,700 people a day sought refugee status by crossing from East to West Berlin, and about 3 million GDR citizens went to West ...

As he explains, the plan was to open only one border crossing, in the south of the ... flocked to the six checkpoints along the Berlin Wall, demanding to be let through. For these East Berliners ...

Harrison) The Berlin Wall really stood as the representation ... a visa to leave permanently or for a holiday via any border crossing point between East and West Germany. Krenz meets party ...