Thus about 500 people crossed the border before the Wall actually came down – the sight of which prompted West German TV to report the borders were now open, which brought thousands more East ...

Read CNN’s Berlin Wall Fast Facts and learn more about the symbol of the Cold War and East/West relations. The Wall stood from 1961 to 1989.

A West German policeman, left, gives a helping hand to an East German border guard who climbs through a gap of the Berlin Wall when East Germany opened another passage at Potsdamer Platz on Nov ...

Berlin is divided once again. No longer by a wall, watch towers, guards or death strips, which tore the city apart for 28 years. But by 8,000 helium-filled luminous balloons. They run along a 15 ...

Through the decades the wall was in place, thousands of people managed to escape from East Berlin, but at least 140 were killed in the attempt, many of them shot by East German border guards.

Between 1961 and 1989, at least 140 people were killed at the Berlin Wall or lost their lives in connection with the GDR border regime. It was the Wall that ensured East Germany's long existence ...

East Germany's last Stalinist leader, Egon Krenz, who was in charge when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, was convicted of manslaughter for shootings at the former border. He is serving a six-and-a ...

O ne used to be an East German border guard; the other grew up just west of the border and started bird-watching in the area at 13. “You might have seen me here with my big binoculars,” says ...

It was 1962, and the workers' paradise, as East Germany liked to present itself, had just turned into a vast prison. The Berlin Wall had gone up and anyone who tried to cross it was officially a ...

West German citizens sit on the top of the Berlin wall near the Allied checkpoint Charlie after the opening of the East German border was announced in this Nov. 9, 1989, file photo. Reuters ...

Yesterday marks the 30th anniversary of the wall’s destruction, amid jubilant scenes in both East and West Germany. Just before midnight on 9 November 1989, a crowd of 20,000 East Germans ...