Thirty years after the border between East and West Germany ceased to exist by the ... nine years before the Berlin Wall. Eventually the border included not only the death strip, but also barbed ...

East German border guards stand in a gap in the Berlin Wall after demonstrators pulled down a segment of the wall at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1989. (Lionel Cironneau/AP) Perspective by ...

Two million East Germans poured through the open border into West Germany within 48 hours of the Berlin Wall bursting open. After a week, more than half the country’s 16 million pent-up people ...

East Germany's leadership had already sealed off the country's main border with West Germany, which snaked from the Baltic Sea to Czechoslovakia, in 1952. The 96-mile-long wall was built by the ...

The 27-mile border wall between East Germany, the German Democratic Republic (GDR); and West Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany; was the site where many East Germans who tried to escape over ...

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.

The border between East and West Germany shut in 1952 ... The borders remained shut until the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, with Germany reuniting in October 1990.

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.

Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of Skip to ...