The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. But that's not where its story ended: Today, you can find pieces of the wall around ...

A larger portion of the Berlin Wall has been demolished to make way for luxury condos. The 196-foot piece of the concrete barrier which separated Berlin — both physically and ideologically — from 1961 ...

(Reuters) - Following are key facts about the Berlin Wall, which was erected beginning in the early hours of August 13, 1961 and breached on November 9, 1989. WHY DID EAST GERMANY NEED A WALL? -- ...

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 walls ...

As we know, they failed. Spectacularly. Capitalism may have seemed on the retreat in 1961, but the Berlin Wall, built to secure the communist system, planted the seeds of its own destruction. It is ...

Historians are concerned as more of the wall disappears over time. BERLIN -- In the Berlin neighborhood of Pankow, a 196-foot stretch of the Berlin wall has been torn down to make way for condominiums ...

Some came with sledgehammers, some just with their bare hands. On the night of Nov. 9, 1989, jubilant crowds began tearing down the Berlin Wall, an infamous barrier dividing families, a city, a nation ...

Berlin, October 1961: American airmen from the RAF Wethersfield football team, sightseeing while in town for a game against the Berlin Bears, toe a line marking the border between East and West as ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Volker Pawlowski is not much of a philosopher. But in his Berlin warehouse filled with concrete pieces of Berlin Wall neatly stocked in banana boxes, the entrepreneur asserts that ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall surprised to the world. How did this historic moment happen? The fall of the Berlin Wall on the evening of November 9, 1989 came as a complete surprise to East and West ...