This documentary explains why East German authorities built the Berlin Wall to halt residents fleeing to West Berlin. It ...

Few symbols better captured the Cold War divide between western Europe and the Soviet bloc than the Berlin Wall, a concrete and barbed wire barrier that divided Germany’s largest city for nearly 30 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kai Wegner, Governing Mayor of Berlin, lights a candle at the Berlin Wall Memorial during the central commemoration ceremony to ...

Joachim Rudolph fled East Berlin himself, but wasn't content: He dug a massive tunnel to help free 29 more from the Soviets, including his future wife, a new book reveals. Joachim Rudolph; Getty ...

In 1991, Art in America’s contributing editor for Germany, David Galloway, flagged down a cab in East Berlin and asked his driver to take him to the equivalent of Bloomingdale’s in West Berlin. His ...

The Berlin Wall was heavily symbolic; from the time it was put up to the day it fell. Here are a few songs that took ...