The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for the unification of Germany on Oct. 3, 1990, less than a year after the border reopened. The demolition of the Wall ended in 1994.

A ceremony to celebrate of the German reunification at the Elbpharmonie in Hamburg, Germany, on October 3, 2023. The reunification is celebrated as a national holiday in Germany, marked by various ...

At the end of the 1980s, the Soviet Union had reached a military dead end in Afghanistan. Owing to crisis phenomena, it pursued a policy of opening up domestically and conceded greater freedom of ...

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The fall of the Berlin Wall began the process of German reunification and precipitated the fall of communist regimes across Eastern Europe, thus drawing the Cold War to an end. Germany was ...

When the Berlin Wall came down I was just starting out as a jobbing journalist. ... If you were over 40 when the wall came down, reunification wasn’t such good news.

The night the Berlin Wall, divider of Germany and of the world, was brought down, people streamed to climb over it, stand on top of it or rush through it, in shock and jubilation.

As Germany celebrates the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989 — and the country's reunification less than a year later on Oct. 3, 1990 — many in Germany are ...

As Germany celebrates the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 — and the country’s reunification less than a year later on October 3, 1990 — many in Germany ...

On November 9th 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, marking the end of the Cold War and the unification of East and West Germany. A ...