Berlin — German authorities have banned actors from posing as American GIs at Checkpoint Charlie, the historic U.S.-controlled border crossing between communist East and West Berlin.

Large photographs showing east Germans crossing into West Berlin through the Bornholmer Strasse/Boesebruecke checkpoint are on permanent display as part of a memorial near the bridge, on October 1.

Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a symbol of East/West ...

For nearly 30 years the Berlin Wall divided Germany’s biggest city in two, just as a heavily fortified fence cut all of East Germany off from the West. Within Berlin the border consisted of a ...

Berlin Wall Memorial Historical Site At Bernauer Straße, Bernauer Str. 111, +49 030 467 98 66-66, info@stiftung-berliner-mauer.de ...

In the 1960s, it was beyond imagination to think the Berlin Wall would ever come down. In 1989, it did. As Trump pushes for border wall funding, what lessons can we learn from the German wall's ...

ALBANY — Posters at Shaker Junior High School referring to Checkpoint Charlie, the Berlin Wall crossing point which separated East and West Berlin during the Cold War, were removed shortly after ...

The Berlin Wall divided the city for 28 years, two months and 28 days starting Aug. 13, 1961. It ended on Nov. 9, 1989, when Guenter Schabowski, a top East German official, erroneously announced ...

The Berlin Wall began as a border of barbed wire fencing and evolved into a fortified concrete barrier with armed East German border guards. East Germany militarized the entire border with the ...