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

On 13 August 1961 a barbed wire fence was erected along the border between East and West Berlin. The wire would quickly be replaced by a concrete wall, complete with lookout towers and armed ...

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 ...

Most were civilians trying to flee to the West from communist East Germany. The 327 includes 262 who died at the Berlin Wall, and 24 East German border guards who were shot while on duty.

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin is divided by light. The contrast is a legacy from the Cold War, when Germany was divided from east to west as tensions mounted between ...

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

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.

Checkpoint Charlie was the most popular border crossing between East Berlin and ... stories of those who escaped from East to West via the Berlin Wall – as well as stories about those who ...

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 ...