Burt Glinn/Magnum Photos It was a mistake ... into a linear version of history,” said Mr. Garton Ash. The fall of the Berlin Wall became the end of history and liberalism the unchallenged ...

here are 25 historic photos. AP Life Before the Fall Father and son ride their bicycles in along a section of the Berlin Wall in 1981. The fall of the Berlin Wall came eight years later.

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and separated ... and citizens even began chipping away at the wall. Ahead, see photos from that infamous night and the nights that followed.

A man takes pictures of East Germany on Nov. 15 ... Residents of West Berlin celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 16, 1989, pulling it apart one piece at a time. People peer through ...

9 November 1989: On this night, 30 years ago, thousands of East Germans rushed to the Berlin Wall and crossed into West Berlin for the first time in almost 30 years. This photo was taken on the ...

Nov. 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — the concrete barrier that separated East Berlin from West Berlin and became the icon of the Cold War for nearly 30 years.

Sunday, Nov. 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. For more than 28 years, the barrier completely cut off West Berlin from East Berlin, until it was opened in 1989.

As an ideological divide between the two fronts of the Cold War, and as physical divide between the two halves of Berlin, the Wall stood for 28 years until November 9, 1989, when the first hammer ...

30 years after the ‘Peaceful Revolution’ led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a unified Germany and the world celebrate this historic moment. Click through the slide show below for images from the ...

The Berlin Wall came tumbling down on November 9, 1989, reuniting East and West Germany, and foreshadowing the fall of the Soviet ... East to West Berlin, and photos from that night show gleeful ...

1961. It would stand for almost 30 years. The Berlin Wall, which kept East from West in Germany, was an 87-mile-long hulking concrete structure designed to suppress a flood of emigration from the ...

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