Tom Demerly was a Scout Observer for Company “F”, 425th INF (RANGER/AIRBORNE), Long Range Surveillance Unit (LRSU), a small unit which conducted surveillance along the East/West German border ...

East German border guards stand in a gap in the Berlin Wall after demonstrators pulled down a segment of the wall at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1989. (Lionel Cironneau/AP) Perspective by ...

In most cases, the main East-West German border outside Berlin consisted of heavily fortified fences rather than walls. There were a few exceptions, however: most famously in the village of ...

to be fired on Some estimates put number of people killed while crossing border at 1,000 Many accused of shootings argue they were not offences under East German law Next Article in World ...

Photo: picture alliance / dpa | Mauritz Antin The inner German border separated East and West Germany from 1949 until the two sides reunited in 1990. Though the border was destroyed 30 years ago ...

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War. Most were ...

East German citizens continued to escape across the border. On Aug. 13, 1961, the East German government escalated the Cold War by building a barbed wire-and-concrete “Antifascistischer ...

None of the East German border guards were suspicious one morning last week when the comfortable old Friedrich Wolf slipped its mooring and chugged down the River Spree (pronounced Shpray), which ...

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Ira Sowards, right, and Pfc. Raymond Carbone of the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment peer across the border into East Germany as they patrol the area near Fulda where Cold ...