And rather than heading to the first point in West Germany, I could reach – as they all did back then – I chose to explore the rich heartlands of the East German ... from the ruins and ...

Eighty years after the end of World War Two, blasted trees and rubble forests tell a hidden story of wartime bombardment and Nazi terror.

At midnight on Aug. 13, 1961, East Germany sealed the borders around West Berlin. Germany had been divided into four occupation zones in the aftermath of World War II, each administered by an ...

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