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.

For nearly a quarter-century, the Berlin Wall had cut off Communist-ruled East Germany from democratic West Germany and most of the rest of Europe. That changed when the wall was opened Nov. 9 ...

BERLIN—Thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell, ending the Cold War in Europe, new political divisions are rising between East and West. Despite the economic success of German reunification and ...

World, Europe Across the Iron Curtain: Fall of Berlin Wall made the personal political Decades after fleeing East Germany, EU history professor tells how Berlin Wall is long gone but never forgotten ...

Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down, signaling the demise of the Cold War. As world leaders gathered to mark the historic event at Brandenburg Gate on Monday, a historian, pollster and ...

Saturday marks 50th anniversary of day wall went up; was symbol of two worlds: one that was free, one behind 'Iron Curtain' ...

Socialist Hungary put up the first section in 1949, building a 260-kilometre (160-mile) barbed wire fence along its border with Austria. Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall was an icon of the Iron Curtain.

A symbol of communist oppression since 1961, the Berlin Wall or 'Iron Curtain' became the site of massive celebration for Germans.

An outpost of freedom behind the Iron Curtain, West Berlin provided not only a ready example of a political alternative for East Germany’s oppressed population but also a practical means of escape.

Caroline Polenz was 25 years old and living in East Berlin when the Berlin Wall fell. Her son Fabian is now 25.

The Berlin Wall was an icon of the Iron Curtain. In 1952 Soviet-satellite East Germany constructed a 10-metre-wide (39-feet) barbed wire buffer along the entire length of its border with West Germany.