BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) -- East German Communist police today hurled tear gas into crowds of jeering West Berliners protesting the closing of the border between East and West Berlin.

The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of 1989. For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no ...

(CNN)-- An apartment left untouched since before the fall of the Berlin Wall ... as the Communist East German state disintegrated in 1989, Spiegel Online reported. A wall calendar showed August ...

3-kilometer section of the Berlin Wall. Following the ... iconic symbol of Berlin and Germany's reunification. Situated near ...

In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that the US president, John F Kennedy, would not try to stop him.