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 ...

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 ...

That was Volker Pawlowski who was quick to realise money could be made from the Wall after reunification. He retired and now the Sacha brothers say they supply around 40% of Berlin’s souvenir ...

After decades of dividing a city and a nation, the Berlin Wall came down in a revolution sweeping communist Eastern Europe. In the blink of an historical eye, Berlin, Germany and world drastically ...

The Berlin Wall entered the history books in 1961. It stood for 28 years as a stark testament to the differences between life on one side of that wall and the other. Hard to believe it's been 25 ...

Building work on the Berlin Wall began on 13 August 1961. Designed to prevent East Berliners escaping to the West, the wall became a symbol of the division of Europe. BBC News Online looks back at the ...

One woman recounts the fall of the Berlin Wall and how she picked up the pieces. BERLIN, Nov. 9, 2009 — -- Anna Kaminsky is a child of the wall. She was born behind the wall, raised behind ...

Erected in haste and torn down in protest, the Berlin Wall was almost 27 miles long and was protected with barbed wire, attack dogs, and 55,000 landmines. But though the wall stood between 1961 ...

BERLIN — Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany’s capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations and official events ...

As winter dusk settled over West Berlin last week, Mayor Willy Brandt threw a switch. Instantly, 400 Christmas trees lining the 25 miles of the hated Communist-built Wall burst into twinkling ...