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 ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The opening of the Berlin Wall by the East German government on November 9, 1989, signaled the collapse of Communism ...
BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival ...