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 ...

A section of the Berlin Wall stands on display at the United Nations in New York, 2014. (Photo by Don Emmert / AFP via Getty Images) In 1990, the oil baron and philanthropist Robert Hefner III sent a ...

100 days in 1989, exploring the days and actions surrounding the Fall of the Wall. November 9th 1989 the most solid symbol of the Cold War for nearly 30 years, the Berlin Wall, was knocked down. The ...

Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin’s symbol of death and division has been turned into a tangible way to experience history Joe Baur | Freelance travel writer It’s ...