Germany is marking the 60th anniversary of the start of construction on the Berlin Wall, which split the nation into two rival political systems and became a symbol of the Cold War that stood for 28 ...

To a lot of North Americans, memories of the Berlin Wall—if they surface at all—serve as a hazy reminder of a bygone era. Fifty years ago this week, however, things were a lot different. The Cold War ...

On October 27, 1961, combat-ready American and Soviet tanks faced off in Berlin at the U.S. Army\'s Checkpoint Charlie. Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union over access to the ...

West German citizens sit on the top of the Berlin wall near the Allied checkpoint Charlie after the opening of the East German border was announced in this Nov. 9, 1989, file photo. Reuters The Berlin ...

The sun was high and the air was warm and moist at 8:30 a.m. when I got out of the 1950s black Mercedes diesel cab I had taken to Berlin”s monumental Brandenburg Gate. The day was Aug. 13, 1961, a ...

Fifty years ago, a metaphor became concrete. Beginning on Aug. 13, 1961, along West Berlin’s 27-mile border, the Iron Curtain became tangible in a wall of precast slabs of concrete. It came down 22 ...

The Berlin Wall has now been dismantled for as long as it stood - 28 years, two months and 26 days, or 10,316 days in total. From 1961 to 1989, the city of Berlin was divided by the most visible sign ...

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 ...

At midnight on this day in 1961, units of the East German army began to close the border between East and West Berlin. Troops and workers tore up streets running alongside the border to make them ...

I arrived in Berlin in 1959, two years before the building of the wall. Despite all the cold-war rhetoric I had been exposed to, the divided city felt remarkably unified. Berlin had been carved up ...

RFE/RL archival photos of the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. 1 East German troops were prominently deployed following the division of East and West Berlin on August 13, 1961. - The ...

Photographs depicting life in Berlin during the Cold War, taken from a new exhibition to mark the anniversary of the fall of the Wall. 04 September 2009 • 8:00am Living with the Wall: Berlin 1961-1989 ...