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Little of the Berlin Wall survives today in the German capital. The onetime barrier between East and West has been torn down, chipped away or auctioned off. Between 1961 and 1989, the formidable ...
A man attacked the Berlin Wall with a pickaxe on the night of Nov. 9, 1989 as news spread rapidly that the East German Government would now start granting exit visas to anyone who wanted to go to ...
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. Berlin's "anti-fascist ...
Now a Cold War relic covered in street art and surrounded by bustling modern Berlin, the Berlin Wall has now been down longer than it was up. For just over 28 years, it stood (August 1961 until ...
Berlin's appearance has changed enormously since the fall on Nov. 9, 1989 of the Berlin Wall, which for nearly three decades divided the communist east from the city's west — a capitalist ...
For 28 years, two months and 27 days the Berlin Wall divided a city. Today marks the day Germany's capital has been reunited longer than it was divided.
Now, nearly 35 years after the Wall fell, with old divisions cropping up once again in Germany and the wider world, the story ...
The Berlin Wall has now been torn down for nearly as long (22 years) as it stood (28 years). Yet it was such a powerful symbol of the Cold War that it still evokes a strong response today, a half ...
An original fragment of the fallen Berlin Wall — once rejected by the Trump administration — was donated Sunday to the city of Tijuana and will be on permanent display in front of the U.S ...
Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, Aug. 25 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! The Berlin Wall divided Germany – and Europe - for nearly 30 years. Like other ...