Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the cold war's most infamous border. Accessibility links.

The Communist regime was prepared for everything “except candles and prayers.” East Germany’s peaceful 1989 revolution showed that societies that don’t reform, die.

The Berlin Wall came tumbling down on November 9, 1989, reuniting East and West Germany, and foreshadowing the fall of the Soviet Union. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

Paul Schutzer—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Not published in LIFE. The Berlin Wall bears the shadowy silhouettes of West Berliners waving to their relatives on the unseen, Eastern side of ...

On Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014, a quarter century will have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. While Germany and the world celebrates the pivotal moment which symbolically ended the Cold War and ...

25 years before it came down 20 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, photographer Arwed Messmer found photos taken by East German patrol agents during 1965 and 1966 looking toward the West.

The Berlin Wall — the infamous landmark of separated Europe — fell Nov. 9, 1989 after dividing Communist East Berlin from capitalist West Berlin for more than 28 years.

Built on the orders of East German communist politician Erich Honecker to stem the mass emigration of Germans from East ...

This Saturday, November 9, marks the 30 year anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall. It’s hard to believe that it has been 30 years since half a million people gathered in East Berlin to ...

The Berlin Wall divided the German city from 1961 until 1989. It became a symbol of the deep political divisions that split Europe between the so-called capitalist West and the Communist East.

Hundreds of thousands of people tried to overcome the Berlin Wall during its near 30-year existence. While 5,000 made it, over a hundred died trying.