Most surprising of all to these West Germans was the uninhibited grumbling of the normally tongue-tied East Germans. Workers at the Hennigsdorf steel plant near Berlin sent a letter to Ulbricht ...

In 1982, a Turkish immigrant started a garden near the Berlin wall on a patch of East German land. Osman Kalin fiercely defended his small domain from any authorities who tried to take it away.

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 America and the West, against Russia. Berlin was ...

There was a growing contrast between life in the West and life in the East. In West Berlin and West Germany, the economy recovered well. Rebuilding and economic aid from the USA (Marshall Aid ...

Built on the orders of East German communist politician Erich Honecker to stem the mass emigration of Germans from East Berlin to West Berlin, the Berlin Wall was a heavily guarded barrier that ...

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.

The Soviet leadership responded to the Western allies' currency reforms by installing their own new currency in East Berlin just 24 hours before the West mark was to go into circulation.

A crowd gathered to listen by the Brandenburg Gate and began chanting, “The wall must fall!” and pushed forward until the authorities forcibly dispersed them.For the late Bowie, who’d gone to live in ...

most of its best hotels are conveniently clustered around the central nodes of Mitte (in former East Berlin) and Charlottenburg (in former West Berlin), with a few choice stays dotted around ...

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On 13 August 1961, the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete ...

He was playing a concert in 1987 in front of the Reichstag in West Berlin, and insisted on turning some of the speakers to blast his music out over East Berlin. A crowd gathered to listen by the ...