Germany on Tuesday marked the anniversary of the 1953 uprising in Berlin against the East German communist government. "We ...

Germany’s division after World War II left an indelible mark on the country, and its effects continue to be felt even decades ...

Berlin is commemorating the 1953 East German uprising more than seven decades after citizens rose up to call for democracy.

East Germany's leadership had already sealed off ... It cut through the middle of the city center and surrounded West Berlin. But not even barbed wire and the Wall could stop people from fleeing.

and drove him to a suburban villa in East Berlin. There, with only three aides present, an extraordinary confrontation took place. For eight hours, Brandt, the author of West Germany’s policy of ...

How a small border crossing in Berlin became a global symbol ... between the Soviet-controlled area in East Germany and the Western-controlled area in West Germany. It was directly overseen ...

As the Protestant Church prepared to hold this week’s annual synod, which is usually held in the two parts of Berlin so that delegates from West Germany can go into East Berlin and mingle with ...

A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...

In a life that crisscrossed the East-West border that once divided ... Image Demonstrators in Leipzig, East Germany, in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall Fell. The placard, in German, reads ...

Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the Cold War's most infamous border. Berlin's "anti-fascist ...

On one side of the wall was Communist East Germany and the whole Soviet Bloc, and on the other side was democratic, capitalist West Berlin, West Germany, and the West. ♪ (narrator) As summer ...