Why We Build Walls: 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall

By fall the East German regime had lost its power On November 9, private citizens began to destroy entire sections of the concrete wall that had divided the

When the Wall went up: Britain and the Berlin Crisis, 1961 Sixty years ago simmering Cold-War tensions were dramatically brought to a head in

berlin wall The Berlin Wall was a border security installation built by the German Democratic Republic on August 12, 1961 Officially called the Antifaschistischer

berlin 777 Westerners called it the wall of shame, while East German authorities called it an anti-fascist rampart The wall crystallized an asymmetric form of