Who would have known a holiday trip to Germany in December 1989, would have offered an opportunity to be an eyewitness to, ...

On 13 August 1961 a barbed wire fence was erected along the border between East and West Berlin. The wire would quickly be replaced by a concrete wall, complete with lookout towers and armed ...

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 - to stop people leaving East Berlin for West Berlin. During the 1989 revolutions, several Soviet-imposed communist regimes in Eastern Europe were toppled as ...

Many of the 327 were young manual workers or farmers. East Germany erected the Wall overnight in 1961 and it totally surrounded West Berlin In 1979 two East German families - the Wetzels and ...

The Berlin Wall, erected in 1961, stood as a symbol of the Cold War until its fall in 1989, dividing East and West Berlin. The anniversary celebrations, which include exhibitions, concerts ...

UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa Berlin Wall is built, dividing East and West Germany American-backed Cuban exiles fail in an attempt to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs ...