They patrolled the most heavily guarded border in the world. The Grenztruppen were East Germany’s frontline against the ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

Thirty years after Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped Berlin's Reichstag building in silver foil, the German capital is paying ...

BERLIN — The Berlin Wall’s construction 50 years ago must be a constant reminder to citizens today to stand up for freedom and democracy, the city’s mayor said Saturday as a united Germany ...

Within hours of a confused announcement on Nov. 9, 1989 that East Germany was lifting ... demolition of most of the wall -- which snaked for 96 miles around West Berlin, a capitalist enclave ...

The following year Germany reunited as one nation, with Berlin as the capital. The Berlin Wall is seen in 1961, the year it was built, at Potsdamer Platz, in Berlin. The East German government ...

Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. News Wrap: Anonymous official’s book ...

When the Berlin Wall came down I was just starting out as a jobbing journalist. After decades of indifference, British editors and readers were interested in Germany again. Over the next 30 years ...

The wall had its origins in the end of World War II, when Germany was carved into four pieces and occupied by Allied powers. Although Berlin was located about 90 miles east from the border between ...

Jon Woodhouse, who writes regular arts and entertainment articles for The Maui News, is currently traveling in Europe and ...

Ceremonies throughout Berlin on Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, culminating in ... For days, celebrations throughout Germany have been commemorating the opening ...