Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, Aug. 25 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! The Berlin Wall divided Germany – and Europe - for nearly 30 years. Like other walls ...

On Aug. 13, 1961, Berliners woke up on a Sunday morning to find their city divided by a wall. That day became known as “Barbed Wire Sunday,” marking a peak in the era of the Cold War. It felt like a ...

(CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a symbol of ...

During his first visit to a divided Berlin in 1963, President John F. Kennedy signalled his strong support for the embattled citizens of that city, less than two years after its infamous Wall arrived.

The writing was on the Berlin Wall. For months the pressure had been building and East Germany’s communist rulers knew if they wanted to stay in power, they could no longer keep their people bottled ...

A boy chips at the Berlin Wall on Nov. 12, 1989, in Berlin. In retrospect, the Wall didn’t last especially long. Twenty-eight years—roughly the span of our youth—and then it was gone: broken into ...

Union Station is installing six original segments of the Berlin Wall as part of its new exhibit, “The Berlin Wall: A World ...

On October 27, 1961, combat-ready American and Soviet tanks faced off in Berlin at the U.S. Army\'s Checkpoint Charlie. Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union over access to the ...

<br><p>To the imposingly named writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, <i>Ostalgie</i> — the East Germans' wistfulness about the bad old days before the Wall fell — was a sickness in need of ...

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 Berlin Wall began as a border of barbed wire fencing and evolved into a fortified concrete barrier with armed East German border guards. East Germany militarized the entire border with the West, ...