Today, there is a section of Wall slabs with photos and a series of plaques – including an ... In most cases, the main East-West German border outside Berlin consisted of heavily fortified ...

Most of communist East Germany's heavily fortified border ... a series of plaques marking the night's main developments — including an alert sent by The Associated Press’ German service ...

One used to be an East German border guard; the other grew up just west of the border and started bird-watching in the area at 13. “You might have seen me here with my big binoculars,” says ...

In this Nov. 11, 1989, photo, East German border guards are seen through a gap in the Berlin wall after demonstrators pulled down a segment of it at Brandenburg gate. (LIONEL CIRONNEAU/Associated ...

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 ...

to be fired on Some estimates put number of people killed while crossing border at 1,000 Many accused of shootings argue they were not offences under East German law Next Article in World ...

Three former East German border guards have been cleared of attempted murder. They were being tried for their alleged role in a famous case 40 years ago, in which a 14-year-old boy was repeatedly shot ...

Photo: picture alliance / dpa | Mauritz Antin The inner German border separated East and West Germany from 1949 until the two sides reunited in 1990. Though the border was destroyed 30 years ago ...

Compensation from the German ... East Germany in 1952 and 1961 by Communist authorities. Marie-Luise Troebs was just ten years old in 1961 when her family were suddenly evicted from a rural border ...