Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are ...

East Germany's leadership had already sealed off the country's main border with West Germany, which snaked from the Baltic Sea to Czechoslovakia, in 1952. The 96-mile-long wall was built by the ...

Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that ...

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East German culture disappeared practically overnight, cast aside for the newly ...

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.

The wall, which separated East and West Germany, stood for 28 years before it was torn down in 1989. #EuropeNews ...

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification ...

Details of the killing remained unknown for decades after the Stasi secret police shredded files relating to the case before communist East Germany reunified with the West in 1990. Berlin ...

- East Berliners get helping hands from West Berliners as they climb the Berlin Wall, which divided the city since the end of ...