Five years earlier, Kiddy Citny of West Berlin began to paint the wall with two of his… A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark ... of naked barbed wire stretched across ...

the wall came to symbolize the "Iron Curtain" that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. It was constructed in just two weeks, initially as a makeshift barbed wire and ...

One of the most daring escapes of the Cold War involved ... mainly through Berlin. On August 12, 1961, East Germany strung up barbed wire around the city and erected a concrete wall decked out ...

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the ...

Many climbed the wall at Berlin's Brandenburg gate, chipping away at the wall itself with hammers and pickaxes. A turbulent year had reached a climax. After World War Two, Europe was carved up by ...

Those who walk through Kennesaw State University may find what looks like a 12-foot stone slap covered in graffiti. That's actually a piece of the Berlin Wall, as in the massive German barrier brought ...

In the late 1950s, issues around Berlin sparked off one of the biggest of the Cold War crises ... On 13 August 1961 a barbed wire fence was erected along the border between East and West Berlin.