West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall early 11 November 1989 as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall in order to open a new crossing point between East and ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

For more than two decades, West Berlin has lived and prospered despite its isolation inside Communist territory. The economic cost of accomplishing that feat is now getting higher and higher.

Even after almost 35 years when the so-called German Reunification which was, in reality, a bit more like an Anschluss wherein West-Germany simply took over East-Germany occurred, a divided Germany ...

BERLIN (AP) — Most of communist East Germany's heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of the Berlin ...

The man who stopped Salomea Genin on the street in West Berlin, on that August morning in 1961, smiled as if he knew her. He was a “rather handsome gentleman,” she recalls, though he would have been ...

The front page of The Tennessean on Nov. 10, 1989 declared: "East Germans dance on Wall," and displayed a photo of three men, arm in arm, celebrating on the Berlin Wall. The article described the ...

Near the East German village of Wandlitz, nine miles to the east of Berlin, is a most unusual settlement. It is a walled-in compound of semi-forested land and wide lawns, within which sit some 20 ...

An exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum explores the Jewish experience in the authoritarian, and officially atheist, communist state throughout the Cold War era. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Berlin ...

BERLIN, Sept 25 (Reuters) - There is little to indicate that the Teufelsberg, or Devil's Mountain, a thickly forested clump rising above western Berlin, is a pile of wartime rubble built on the ...