The SED-Staat research group at the Free University of Berlin is currently attempting to estimate the total number of people killed while attempting to cross the inner-German border before it ...

Physically separate from the more famous Berlin Wall, the Inner German border was nearly 1,400km long and divided East and West Germany from 1949, when the Soviets established East Germany ...

Nearly 30 years ago, a hobby photographer set out to photograph the entire border between East and West Germany. Six years ago he resumed the project, snapping the same places to show how ...

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 ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Frobel suggested turning the inner-German border into a 1,400km-long (870 miles) “green belt”. Germany reunified in 1990, making this possible.

by 1,000 people who were killed at the inner-German border and at the Berlin Wall, 1,000 victims of this deadly border system," he said. Mr. Habicht says these are not the source of "ostalgia ...

"It seems to me that there is no more suitable place than Observation Point Alpha for reflecting on the memory of the former inner German border which lay only meters away from where we are ...

Nowhere was the ‘curtain’ so heavily militarised as along die Grenze, the ‘inner German border’ that separated the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) and the Federal Republic ...

The inner German border also divided the northern parts of the country. The Grenzhus Schlagdorf (the "Border House Schlagdorf") is located near Lübeck. The memorial site and museum features a ...

Berlin can be puzzling to first-time visitors: As one of Europe’s most geographically spread-out cities, the streets here seem relatively empty even on weekdays. That’s not just because of ...

Border troops of the Army - the Grenztruppen were formed to protect the inner border with Western Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia and the Wall surrounding West Berlin. IRS Tax Mistake Bill ...

The rules of the game are inspired by the situation at the former Inner German border. "Border camps, death strips, and orders to shoot are what make the game brutal." 1378(km) - named so because ...