A Berlin court ruled that officials must investigate the claims of those arriving from neighboring E.U. countries, dealing a ...

The 27-mile border wall between East Germany, the German Democratic Republic (GDR); and West Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany; was the site where many East Germans who tried to escape over ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once, in late winter 1972, a time when the Cold War was precarious, I was on the night train from Poznan, Poland, to Berlin, approaching the East German border. There had been a three-day general ...

He said the defendant, whose name was not given in line with German privacy ... and accompanied to a border crossing at the Friedrichstrasse railway station in East Berlin, according to prosecutors.