— -- The Berlin Wall came down 25 years ago today. Built in the middle of the night Aug. 13, 1961, the wall divided East and West Germany for 28 years to stop East Germans from leaving the ...

Hour by hour, the story grew in excitement: rumors abounded that the Berlin Wall could very well be coming down within days. So that morning, about 5 a.m., with no assignment, ...

BERLIN – “There is such a lot of unbelievable things here,” 27 year-old Jay Baumgarten told me. Jay was the first newcomer from the East I spoke with in West Berlin after the Berlin Wall ...

Fall of the Berlin Wall: 30 years later Thirty years ago, the Berlin Wall, one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War in Europe, came down piece by piece.

It took 15 months for the Wall to come down — and it couldn’t have happened in a more startling way. It was triggered by a blunder of the East Berlin party boss, Günter Schabowski, in a press ...

THE Fall of the Berlin Wall happened 30 years ago today. Why was the Berlin Wall built and when did the wall come down? Here’s what we know. When did the Berlin Wall fall? The dismantling of … ...

Why the Berlin Wall came down. In this Nov. 10, 1989, file photo, East and West Berliners mingle as they celebrate in front of a control station on East Berlin territory, ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall 29 years ago was one of the most consequential events of the 20th century, exposing the Soviet Union as a corrupt, weak “empire” and ...

The wall, perhaps the most powerful symbol of the Cold War, stood for more than 28 years until it was torn down starting Nov. 9, 1989, during the collapse of the Soviet empire.

The Berlin Wall toppled 35 years ago. First, the world looked on with awe, and then the disbelief gave way to jubilation. ... I was 15 years old when the Berlin Wall came down.

He’d gone to Berlin that summer of 1989 and returned to The States with a chunk from the wall in his suitcase. I was appreciative of his generosity. His gift remains one of the most cherished ...