The East Side Gallery refers to the longest intact section of the Berlin Wall, which stretches for nearly a mile. If you want to experience the wall for the first time, this is the place to do it.
but the wall went straight across, leaving a triangle of East Berlin on the western side of the wall. It remained even when the wire fence became a fortified double wall with a mined and tripwired ...
Magdeburg's transformation from continental kings to a second-tier side reflects the ... only six hail from the east. Decades ...
Who would have known a holiday trip to Germany in December 1989, would have offered an opportunity to be an eyewitness to, ...
Germans commemorated on Sunday the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which on Nov. 9, 1989, ended a years-long divide between East and West Germany. Twenty five years ago Sunday ...
In 1961, Communist East Germany built a wall across Berlin ... in West Berlin but much listened to on the other side of the Berlin Wall. Imagine, he said, if the new publishing house built ...
When the wall ... from one side of the city to the other, according to the AP. Daniela Augenstine, who worked in Berlin's street furniture department, told The Guardian that the east uses sodium ...
On 13 August 1961 a barbed wire fence was erected along the border between East and West Berlin. The wire would quickly be replaced by a concrete wall, complete with lookout towers and armed ...
Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...