When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

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 ...

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 ...

To a lot of North Americans, memories of the Berlin Wall—if they surface at all—serve as a hazy reminder of a bygone era. Fifty years ago this week, however, things were a lot different. The Cold War ...

Fifty years ago, a metaphor became concrete. Beginning on Aug. 13, 1961, along West Berlin’s 27-mile border, the Iron Curtain became tangible in a wall of precast slabs of concrete. It came down 22 ...

The Berlin Wall has now been dismantled for as long as it stood - 28 years, two months and 26 days, or 10,316 days in total. From 1961 to 1989, the city of Berlin was divided by the most visible sign ...

The winds of cold-war crisis for 1961 were converging on Berlin. Russia’s Nikita Khrushchev had made it plain that he intends to provoke that crisis. In his Vienna confrontation with Khrushchev, ...

RFE/RL archival photos of the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. 1 East German troops were prominently deployed following the division of East and West Berlin on August 13, 1961. - The ...

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 ...

Photographs depicting life in Berlin during the Cold War, taken from a new exhibition to mark the anniversary of the fall of the Wall. 04 September 2009 • 8:00am Living with the Wall: Berlin 1961-1989 ...

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