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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BERLIN, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Exactly 53 years after East Germany's Communist authorities started to build the Berlin Wall, half of all Germans do not know the exact date when the city was divided, said ...

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 ...