The heavily fortified border —the Berlin Wall— plugged the last gap between East and West. On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched.

10 East Berlin border guards stand atop the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate on November 11, 1989. Two days earlier, on November 9, the wall was breached by thousands of Germans after ...

Leaving Copenhagen at noon on a one-hour flight southwest to Hamburg, U.S.A.F. Captain James Palmer Lundy, 42, a pilot with twelve years' flying experience, set a course of 220°, and then ...

35 years ago on November 9 an imprecise instruction led to the collapse of the border infrastructure surrounding West Berlin, as Berliners took to tearing down the wall in the days after the ...

World Former officer with East Germany’s secret police sentenced to prison for a border killing in 1974 Oct. 14, 2024 at 5:47 am Updated Oct. 14, 2024 at 6:07 am ...

A chilling memory has haunted me for weeks. Once, in late winter 1972, a time when the Cold War was precarious, I was on the night train from Poznan, Poland, to Berlin, approaching the East German ...