Under the Berlin Wall

berlin wall  According to German historian Hans-Hermann Hertle in his work Berlin Wall: Monument of the Cold War, between 1961 and when the wall finally came The Fall of the Wall When Hungary disabled its physical border defenses with Austria on August 19, 1989, it initiated a chain of events that would eventually

4: The Building of the Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Germany from 1961 to 1989, aimed at preventing East Germans from fleeing to Before dawn on 13 August 1961, construction began on a wall that would divide Berlin in two and come to symbolise the Cold War for the next 28 years

Berlin Wall: Photos From the Birth of a Brutal Divide View Gallery The Berlin Wall bore the shadowy silhouettes of West Berliners waving to their relatives on After the fall of the Berlin Wall, people leaving East Germany by car Atmosphere in Berlin