Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall, the former border fortification of the GDR, stood between 1961 and 1989 and separated the western part of the city from the eastern part

When the Berlin Wall opened 30 years ago, it created a fracture in the Iron Curtain and allowed safe passage out of Soviet territory But the

berlin68 Berlin's population hurried towards the city's borders The guards had not Wall, a wall which had kept family and friends apart for 28 years, finally

berlin777 The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 laid the groundwork for new institutions, new states, and, in some cases, new conflicts In the more than three decades