BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) -- East German Communist police today hurled tear gas into crowds of jeering West Berliners protesting the closing of the border between East and West Berlin.

The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of 1989. For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no ...

Muttered one stricken East Berliner: “It’s a typical disease of the Wall. Before the Wall went up, we could at least buy green vegetables in West Berlin, but all winter long we got practically ...

In 87-year-old Harlan Boer’s memory, Dutch flower fields and the smell of cooking bratwurst and schnitzel are as clear as the sight of machine guns and barbed wire.

The East Side Gallery refers to the longest intact section of the Berlin Wall, which stretches for nearly a mile. If you want to experience the wall for the first time, this is the place to do it.

For decades the people of the former East were forbidden to ... two brothers from the former West Berlin, have been running a business based on the Wall since the beginning of the year, having ...

MY WONDERFUL WEST BERLIN, the second part of Jochen Hick’s East-West trilogy, was a surprise hit in the ... the arrival of the AIDS epidemic that took so many lives – right up to the fall of the Wall.

For 28 years a 155km-long concrete wall snaked through the centre of Berlin, separating the Soviet-backed East from the ...

On 13 August 1961 a barbed wire fence was erected along the border between East and West Berlin. The wire would quickly be replaced by a concrete wall, complete with lookout towers and armed ...