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 ...

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Berlin, West Germany, Sept. 15, 1961: A West Berlin girl looks on as young, uniformed East Germans roll out barbed wire. Read the banter between the East and West Berliners as the barriers that would ...

2009-11-07T12:58:46-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/130/289263-m.jpgW.R. Smyser talked about his book Kennedy and the Berlin Wall: A Hell of a Lot Better than a ...

BERLIN — Germany marked the 47th anniversary on Wednesday of the Berlin Wall's construction, and the country's parliament speaker said the barrier's ultimate collapse proves that any regime's effort ...

Twenty-five years ago Sunday, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev refused to use force when thousands of people from East and West converged to pull down the Berlin Wall. He taught us all a great lesson: ...

This year marks the 45th anniversary of the call-up of Viroqua National Guard soldiers in the 32nd Infantry Division during the Berlin Crisis. Lives were put on hold for a year in 1961-62 when the 90 ...