BERLIN — Germany marked the 47th anniversary on Wednesday of the Berlin Wall's construction, and the country's parliament speaker said the barrier's ultimate collapse proves that any regime's effort ...
(CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a symbol of ...
Berlin, West Germany, Sept. 15, 1961: A West Berlin girl looks on as young, uniformed East Germans roll out barbed wire. Read the banter between the East and West Berliners as the barriers that would ...