(Reuters) - Following are key facts about the Berlin Wall, which was erected beginning in the early hours of August 13, 1961 and breached on November 9, 1989. WHY DID EAST GERMANY NEED A WALL? -- ...

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 ...

As we know, they failed. Spectacularly. Capitalism may have seemed on the retreat in 1961, but the Berlin Wall, built to secure the communist system, planted the seeds of its own destruction. It is ...

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

In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist East — spent the year competing to see who could showcase the best cultural, ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - When Mike Pompeo was posted to Europe as a U.S. soldier in the late 1980s, he patrolled the border that marked the "Iron Curtain" dividing East and West. As he gazed on the ...