It stood for 28 years, painfully dividing East and West Germany. But the Berlin Wall finally came down on November 9, 1989.

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On November 9th 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, marking the end of the Cold War and the unification of East and West Germany. A ...

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Imagine it's 1966, and you're living in East Berlin, a city divided by the infamous Berlin Wall. The East German government, desperate to prevent citizens from fleeing to the West, has fortified every ...

Berlin was also split four ways even though it was in the Soviet zone, with the famous Berlin Wall signifying the divide. Over the second half of the 20th century, East and West Germany reflected ...

People gather near a part of the Berlin Wall that was broken down after the communist German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) decision to open borders between East and West Berlin, Berlin, West ...

(Berlin alone saw more than 5,000 documented successful escapes — 565 by East German guards — but also more than 140 deaths. Outside Berlin, roughly 1,000 people were killed trying to cross ...

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 to symbolise the ‘Iron Curtain’ – an ideological split between the East and the West. But a simple question and slip up by East German Communist Party official Günter ...

Dividing east and west The Berlin wall, which was in place in the city between 1961 and 1989, divided the city between the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and capitalist West Germany.