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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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