The central part of the wall that divided West Berlin and East Berlin was 43 km, or 27 miles long. Intelligence reports and maps included in the document release details on the construction of the ...

Using the Berlin Wall app, I followed along with an interactive map that tells the stories of those who tried to escape and the locations where they made their attempts. I counted 15 Berliners who ...

Since shortly after World War II, a wavy line on the map had separated the two German ... on an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall. The following June, the president would visit the Wall for ...

The wall is a relic of the ever-distant ... Communism, it seems, had some benefits. “Berlin Now” is a wonderful little book — a map to the mind of a strange city. The last few pages discuss ...

Imagine if your map of Seattle ended at the same place your ... That’s one of the aspects of the Berlin Wall that’s illuminated in an intriguing installation at 911 Media Arts Center.

That's actually a piece of the Berlin Wall, as in the massive German barrier brought down in 1989 as part of the end of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. How did Kennesaw State University ...

In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist East — spent the year competing to see who could showcase the best ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...

That's how NPR's Linda Wertheimer began an All Things Considered broadcast alongside co-host Robert Siegel, 33 years ago this week — as the Berlin Wall began to crumble. The wall stood for ...