East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.

ALTOONA, Pa. (WJAC) – 30 years ago Saturday, East and West Germany celebrated as the wall dividing the two nations came tumbling down. German-born Pennsylvania residents Anja Wagner and Maggie ...

East Germany's leadership had already sealed off the country's main border with West Germany, which snaked from the Baltic Sea to Czechoslovakia, in 1952. The construction site of the Berlin Wall ...

BERLIN — Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German capital — divided for decades by bricks and barbed wire — has slowly grown back together. Few visible scars remain other ...

Two million East Germans poured through the open border into West Germany within 48 hours of the Berlin Wall bursting open. After a week, more than half the country’s 16 million pent-up people ...

West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall early Nov. 11, 1989, as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall between East and West Berlin.