The wall between East and West Berlin was nearly 12 feet high and approximately 27 miles long, with 302 guard towers and 55,000 anti-personnel explosive devices (landmines). To prevent attempts to ...

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.

The Berlin Wall came tumbling down on November 9, 1989, reuniting East and West Germany, and foreshadowing the fall of the Soviet Union. It stood for 28 years to separate the two sides of Berlin ...

The Berlin Wall was torn down 30 years ago ... Jubilant crowds stormed the concrete blockade dividing the East and the West on November 9, 1989, just minutes after the Communist German Democratic ...

11 People stream through a breach in the wall on November 11 after East German soldiers were ordered to stand aside, effectively ending the physical divide between East and West Berlin.

EAST BERLIN, Nov. 9 — Communist East Germany today opened its borders to the West, including the Berlin Wall, announcing that its citizens could travel or emigrate freely, in the most stunning ...

(Revisit National Geographic's reporting from West Berlin before the wall fell.) East Germans began fleeing through the more permeable border between East and West Berlin instead. At one point ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - With East Germany in the limelight of celebrations of 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, people who spent the Cold War in the capitalist enclave of West Berlin can be ...

“It’s a very tight life there, surrounded by a wall with machineguns,” Bowie said of life in West Berlin. “The longer you live there the more it comes in, and the Wall by the end feels as ...

Germans from East and West Berlin stand on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Friday, November 10, 1989. (AP Photo File) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 ...

AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans – told ... urged East Germany to "take the final step and tear that Wall down.'' - West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl called for face-to-face talks ...