President Bush applauded the opening of East German border as ''a dramatic development ... for freedom'' that may give the Berlin Wall ''very little relevance'' on the new political map of Europe.

as was recently shown in a collection of maps tweeted by researcher Tomas Pueyo. Demarcated by the internal border, former East German states include Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg ...

East German border guards on Monday turned back West German diplomats trying to cross to West Berlin, and advised diplomats from other NATO countries that measures would be enforced on Tuesday to ...

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 ...

Miller continued, "East Germany was very, very able to reduce the flow. Now, obviously, other things were involved. We have the capacity to, as a great nation, secure the border. If East Germany ...

many of them shot by East German border guards. The wall was toppled on November 9, 1989, amid massive protests both inside and outside East Germany, a police state that collapsed along with its ...

An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, went on trial Thursday over the killing of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided Berlin 50 years ago.

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