Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse. In 1961, the GDR began construction of the Berlin Wall. (is associated with: «Merz ...

(Reuters) - Following are key facts about the Berlin Wall, which was erected beginning in the early hours of August 13, 1961 and breached on November 9, 1989. WHY DID EAST GERMANY NEED A WALL? -- ...

As we know, they failed. Spectacularly. Capitalism may have seemed on the retreat in 1961, but the Berlin Wall, built to secure the communist system, planted the seeds of its own destruction. It is ...