Surrounding the West Berliners are the 65,000 armed troops of the East German army, not to mention Russia’s own 300,000 battle-ready soldiers who occupy East Germany permanently.

German authorities have been tracking down the last-remaining members of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a now-defunct Cold War-era militant group, who have been on the run for nearly 30 years.

The most wanted man in West Germany for the ... where he cached away 50 steel cases of intelligence data on the Red Army. ... Gehlen plotted some of the crucial undercover moves of the cold war.

Priscilla Presley gazes at a bronze statue of her former husband, Elvis Presley, in Bad Nauheim, Germany, March 20, 2025. Priscilla met Elvis in the spa town in 1959, when she was 14.

During the Cold War, Soviet-occupied East Germany celebrated its National People’s Army with military parades. An equivalent was never established in the West.

This campaign was spearheaded by the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. army’s Counterintelligence Corps, which employed ex-members of Nazi Germany’s intelligence agencies and Germans ...

German authorities have been tracking down the last-remaining members of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a now-defunct Cold War-era militant group, who have been on the run for nearly 30 years.