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 ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

Around the end of World War II and German surrender in 1945, a pair of peace conferences in Potsdam and Yalta split the defeated land into four territories controlled by the Allied powers. The Soviets ...

Who would have known a holiday trip to Germany in December 1989, would have offered an opportunity to be an eyewitness to, and participate in, the remaking of European history? At the time, Eric, our ...

The 6,338 pound, 9 ½ feet tall segment of the Berlin Wall on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley got a badly needed cosmetic overhaul this week. Once displaying ...

The front page of The Tennessean on Nov. 10, 1989 declared: "East Germans dance on Wall," and displayed a photo of three men, ...