Who would have known a holiday trip to Germany in December 1989, would have offered an opportunity to be an eyewitness to, ...

The new novel by “The Reader” author Bernhard Schlink follows a man trying to rescue a girl from the grip of neo-Nazis.

Officially, the border between East and West Berlin traced a right angle near a curved street known as Bethaniendamm, but the wall went straight across, leaving a triangle of East Berlin on the ...

August: The Soviets and German Democratic Republic block movement by East Berliners into the West and begin construction of a Berlin Wall dividing the two parts of the city. April 16: Clay dies.

Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall stood for 28 years at the front line of the Cold War between ... to cut off East Germans from the supposed ideological contamination of the West and to stem the ...