The 327 includes 262 who died at the Berlin Wall, and 24 East German border guards who were ... Ingo got there by crossing a river on an air mattress with a friend; Holger used a bow and arrow ...

The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of 1989. For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no ...

Newsweek’s then-Berlin ... went to the wall frequently in the days following Nov. 9 to capture the moment. He told Mark Kurlansky for his 1995 book “A Chosen Few” that East Germans ...

The remark was so offhanded that it took Reimold a little time to recognize the implications of the statement — that East Germany was opening the Berlin Wall and the heavily fortified border ...

The checkpoint was designated as the only crossing for ... the city was divided. East and West Berlin were separated by the Berlin Wall from 1961-89. The ban comes as Germany celebrates 30 years ...

The Wall can keep East Germans from moving West ... a turnabout during the party’s Central Committee meeting in East Berlin. His speech lasted six hours, but the lines that the party faithful ...

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 ...

Of the 56 professional teams in Germany's top three leagues, only six hail from the east. Decades after the fall of the ...

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin is divided by light. The contrast is a legacy from the Cold War, when Germany was divided from east to west as tensions mounted between ...

On 13 August 1961, the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete ...

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 ...