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.

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 ...

It was pulled off by a group of brave West German students led by Joachim Rudolph. In 1962, they dug a tunnel under the ...

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.

Newsweek’s then-Berlin ... went to the wall frequently in the days following Nov. 9 to capture the moment. He told Mark Kurlansky for his 1995 book “A Chosen Few” that East Germans ...

The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of 1989. For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no ...

After the Berlin Wall's fall in 1989 ... Berlin Private Custom Tour in a Minivan, East and West (104 reviews) East Berlin Food and History Walking Tour ...

Attractions are spread out along the old political boundaries of east and west Berlin, with most of the popular sights on the city's east side. Accessible via the Klosterstraße, Brandenburger Tor ...

Germans commemorated on Sunday the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which on Nov. 9, 1989, ended a years-long divide between East and West Germany. Twenty five years ago Sunday ...