Nikita Khrushchev had become leader of the Soviet Union in 1956. In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that ...

East German police and soldiers sealed the most frequently used border crossings between East and West Berlin with barbed wire. Soviet troops began to replace the wire with a concrete wall.

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...

Today it’s a symbol of Europe’s migration crisis — a crisis driving the ... moment of deepest paradox — when the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 almost doomed the opening of Europe ...

European leaders on Thursday expressed optimism that the German government crisis will be resolved quickly ... the collapse ...