Fifty years after the construction of the Berlin Wall began on August 13, 1961, people recall what life was like with the wall dividing Berlin, Germany in half. Hear about Joachim Rudolph’s daring escape and the incredible way that he met his future wife. Also hear how Klaus Koppen became separated from his fiancé and the struggle he went through to reunite with her. The wall came down on November 9, 1989.

David Hasselhoff recalls his emotional performance of "Looking for Freedom" on top of the rubble of the Berlin Wall.

A West Berlin man talks about daily life and the mixing of East and West in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the wall.

Residents of East Germany and West Germany recall their feelings when the wall came down in 1989.

Curiously, David Hasselhoff had a huge hit in West Germany in 1989 with a song called "Looking for Freedom." He performed it on the remains of the wall a few weeks after it came down.

With revelers behind him, Tom Brokaw, the first American broadcaster on the scene, reports on the fall of the wall.

Art Harman traveled to Berlin with three friends to watch the Wall fall and returned to America with 1,000 pounds of rubble to sell. Art was interviewed by Dutch NOS in 2009 about his experience in Germany. The Brandenburg Gate was re-opened on December 22, 1989.