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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Berlin Wall is seen in 1961, the year it was built, at Potsdamer Platz, in Berlin. ... A man takes pictures of East Germany on Nov. 15, 1989, through the cracks of the Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Wall opened in Berlin, Germany on November 1989. Patrick PIEL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images New border crossings were created, leaving behind large gaps in the Wall.

Built on the orders of East German communist politician Erich Honecker to stem the mass emigration of Germans from East Berlin to West Berlin, the Berlin Wall was a heavily guarded barrier that ...