The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop an exodus from the eastern, communist part of divided Germany to the more prosperous west. Here, Berliners remember the night in November 1989 when the barrier between two ideologies was finally breached.
Learn how the Berlin Wall was built, blockaded and torn down by the Communists and the Allies in the Cold War era. Explore the stories of the escapees, the tensions and the symbolism of the partitioning of Berlin.