Who would have known a holiday trip to Germany in December 1989, would have offered an opportunity to be an eyewitness to, ...
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.
A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...
The new novel by “The Reader” author Bernhard Schlink follows a man trying to rescue a girl from the grip of neo-Nazis.
The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... He demanded that, as Berlin lay in East Germany, the Western powers should withdraw their troops from Berlin within six ...