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.

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 ...

April 29 stands as a remarkable date in history, marking moments of profound change and cultural milestones that have ...

3-kilometer section of the Berlin Wall. Following the Wall's fall in 1989, artists from around the world came together to ...