When the Berlin Wall came down, such idealists were proven right, even if their triumph was still ignored. Yet war-as-the-answer reasserted itself with remarkable rapidity.

A section of the Berlin Wall stands on display at the United Nations in New York, 2014. (Photo by Don Emmert / AFP via Getty Images) In 1990, the oil baron and philanthropist Robert Hefner III ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall on the evening of November 9, 1989 came as a complete surprise to East and West Germans, and the entire world. How did this historic moment come to be?

The fall of the Berlin Wall that separated West and East Berlin from Aug. 13, 1961, to Nov. 9, 1989, is known as the monumental event that marked the end of the Cold War. The following year Germany… ...

Lewison was leaving Berlin just as the Wall was crumbling, and remembered talking to artists who lived in the East. Besides restricted access to their families, they had few complaints.

It stood for 28 years, painfully dividing East and West Germany. But the Berlin Wall finally came down on November 9, 1989. This is what that day felt like for those who lived through it.

AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans – told they were free to travel anywhere – wept, hugged, danced and kissed in both halves of divided Berlin today after East Germany opened its borders for ...

On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. Find out more about this important moment in history and why the wall was built and how it divided a city, a country and a continent.

A West German police officer, left, gives a helping hand to an East German border guard who climbs through a gap in the Berlin Wall when East Germany opened another passage at Potsdamer Platz in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I can’t wait until July 10 to stand on the site of the concrete wall that once split Berlin into east and west. Doing so had long been on my bucket list, dating to my first ...