German police have said they are concerned that border officers might face legal problems after a court blocked the ...

A town in eastern Germany is offering two weeks free accommodation to encourage people to relocate there in a bid to boost ...

A quaint European town is luring new residents with free accommodation as a way to boost population in the area.

Then he closed with his now iconic phrase ... In most cases, the main East-West German border outside Berlin consisted of heavily fortified fences rather than walls. There were a few exceptions ...

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 ...

And that our perceptions are clearer now, from that perspective? I started learning from below at the Polish-East German border, and there have been tough lessons in humility since then.

Otherwise, the Wall has largely disappeared now and much of the former ... In most cases, the main East-West German border outside Berlin consisted of heavily fortified fences rather than ...

Hundreds of former East German border guards and officials have been ... local communist party bosses in Halle and Karl-Marx-Stadt, now renamed Chemnitz -- were comparatively little-known.

BERLIN (AP) — An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border ...

A former East German ... Naumann, now 80, guilty of murder for shooting Czeslaw Kukuczka, 38, in the back at close range as he sought to flee through Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse border point ...