Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

The Berlin Wall entered the history books in 1961. It stood for 28 years as a stark testament to the differences between life on one side of that wall and the other. Hard to believe it's been 25 years ...

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 ...

Tijuana’s mayor took a jab at US migrant policies by recently installing a 3-ton gray concrete slab of the Berlin Wall just feet from America’s latest stretch of border wall. “May this be a lesson to ...

If you ever come across a meme using a relative temporal expression such as "today" or "this week," there's a good chance that the information contained within it is outdated. After all, the meme will ...

Construction of the Berlin Wall started on August 13, 1961. In October of the next year,* *{: .apple-converted-space}The New Yorker* *{: .apple-converted-space}published “Die Mauer” (“The Wall”), a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Telepool’s Global Screen and Elsani & Neary Media are joining forces to develop a television series based on the true stories of the people who dug Tunnel 29, the famed secret passage from ...

In retrospect, the Wall didn’t last especially long. Twenty-eight years—roughly the span of our youth—and then it was gone: broken into chunks, carted away as souvenirs, placed on mantles and shelves, ...

MAINZ, Germany — The longest remaining section of the Berlin Wall has been saved from the threat of demolition. The so-called East Side Gallery, a three-quarter of a mile stretch that is famous for ...

A group in Berlin has sent Donald Trump a piece of the barrier that divided East and West for nearly three decades as a dig at the president's southern U.S. border plans. A 2.7-tonne section of the ...