Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kai Wegner, Governing Mayor of Berlin, lights a candle at the Berlin Wall Memorial during the central commemoration ceremony to ...
Germany's infamous symbol of division, the Berlin Wall, split West Berlin — an isolated enclave of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) — from East Berlin, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) for ...