The Berlin Wall, like the Iron Curtain, divided Germany in half, cutting all ties between people on different sides. If a person wanted to visit relatives, ...

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 ...

Their writings help us understand the continued relevance of the physical symbol of the Iron Curtain. The wall rises . On June 10, 1961, ... The Berlin Wall may have fallen, ...

The Berlin Wall was an icon of the Iron Curtain. At least 21 East Germans died while trying to cross Bulgaria's border with Greece, while at least 695 are thought to have made it safely across AFP ...

Symbol of end of Iron Curtain. The fall of the Berlin Wall opened the door to German reunification, for the entry of former East Germany in the European Union, but “beyond the German borders, it ...

On August 13, 1961, the window in the “Iron Curtain” was shut. In a single night, the border between the two parts of Berlin was closed. Thousands of people were cut off from their families ...

Editor’s Note: To mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, ... Story highlights. CNN's Jonathan Mann recalls the day the Iron Curtain fell.

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 ...

Fall of the Berlin Wall: Goodbye to all that - the lost world beyond the Iron Curtain. Germans who bemoan the failures of reunification might do better to remember how bad it actually was - and ...

The Iron Curtain Is Gone, but Europe’s East and West Are Again Divided ... but politically the former blocs are drifting apart again 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell.