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 ...

Berlin, West Germany, Sept. 15, 1961: A West Berlin girl looks on as young, uniformed East Germans roll out barbed wire. Read the banter between the East and West Berliners as the barriers that would ...

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 ...

100 days in 1989, exploring the days and actions surrounding the Fall of the Wall. November 9th 1989 the most solid symbol of the Cold War for nearly 30 years, the Berlin Wall, was knocked down. The ...

Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin’s symbol of death and division has been turned into a tangible way to experience history Joe Baur - Freelance travel writer It’s ...

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 ...

Built on the orders of East German communist politician Erich Honecker to stem the mass emigration of Germans from East ...