In early August 1961, a letter arrived at the Berlin Zoo’s administration office. A visitor’s annual pass had been taken away because she’d fed animals without permission. Not so very long before, ...

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop East Germans fleeing to the West. It began as a barbed wire and cinderblock wall and was then fortified as a heavily guarded 160-km (100-mile) white concrete ...

East Germany opened the Berlin Wall and its other borders Thursday, and its cheering citizens crossed freely to the West for the first time since 1961. Hundreds of people danced on the wall.

The Berlin Wall began as a border of barbed wire fencing and evolved into a fortified concrete barrier with armed East German border guards. East Germany militarized the entire border with the West, ...

A fierce argument is taking place in Berlin about a building that represents a difficult part of the city's history. In a few weeks, the old East German parliament is scheduled to be torn down. But as ...

Two decades after they triumphantly tore down the infamous wall that divided their city, Berliners are having some regrets. The Germans did such a thorough job of demolishing the hated barrier that ...

Passport forgery and sewer crawling were, until recently, the unacademic pursuits of a group of West Berlin’s most serious university students. Their object: to smuggle as many East Berliners as ...

THE Berliners on both sides of the Wall have a common past, speak the same language, and feel themselves to be inhabitants of the same city. They are a determined people. Even under the crippling ...

(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 ...

In early August 1961, a letter arrived at the Berlin Zoo’s administration office. A visitor’s annual pass had been taken away because she’d fed animals without permission. Not so very long before, ...