This is the first program in a three-part series Freedom Without Walls that aired on NPR Specials. Host Frank Bond and a panel of eyewitnesses discuss the building of the Berlin Wall and the tensions ...
On August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up to find their city divided by a wall. On August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up on a Sunday morning to find their city divided by a wall. That day became known as ...
The night the Berlin Wall, divider of Germany and of the world, was brought down, people streamed to climb over it, stand on top of it or rush through it, in shock and jubilation. Others came with ...
An original fragment of the fallen Berlin Wall — once rejected by the Trump administration — was donated Sunday to the city of Tijuana and will be on permanent display in front of the U.S.-Mexico ...
BERLIN (AP) — Nearly 40 years after East Germany s communists built the Berlin Wall, their successor party stopped short Monday of offering an apology, a sign of how next month s wall anniversary is ...
It is a fitting irony of history that two hundred years ago Berlin could boast the oddest architectural ensemble of any Central European city — a barracklike settlement for giants. Frederick the Great ...
Tijuana’s mayor took a jab at US migrant policies by recently installing a 3-ton gray concrete slab of the Berlin Wall just feet from America’s latest stretch of border wall. “May this be a lesson to ...
Built on the orders of East German communist politician Erich Honecker to stem the mass emigration of Germans from East ...