Even today, hundreds of mines along the inner German border have not been found or removed. In Berlin, a little over a mile of the wall remains, spread out at several sites.

After the inner German border was strengthened in 1952, Berlin became the main route for Germans leaving the Soviet-controlled East — an estimated 3.5 million people by 1961.

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, it still impacts the lives of people living on ...

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 construction site of the Berlin Wall ...

Explore the Inner German Border with ‘Walled In!’ 06/30/2009 Deutsche Welle works with historians to produce a high-definition computer animation recreating the details of the Berlin Wall and ...

For half a century, Germany was divided by an internal border, running between democratic West Germany and communist East Germany. Now, 18 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the nature that ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989 became a symbol for the end of the Cold War. At least 138 people died trying to cross the inner-German border in the capital, according to the Guardian.

On the GDR side especially, the fortifications were heavy and complex along the wall’s entire length: a restricted zone, protective strip and outer fences were built behind the border, which was ...

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. Fresh blow for mortgage ...

East German border guards look through a hole in the Berlin wall after demonstrators pulled down one segment at the Brandenburg Gate on November 11, 1989. Associated Press/Lionel Cironneau ...

Following the Wall's former location on Bernauer Strasse along 1.4 kilometers, it shows how the border fortifications were set up and pays tribute to the people who fled East Berlin as well as to ...

When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, followed by the inner German border that ran from Czechoslovakia to the Baltic Sea, the gates to the West were opened to all, and the bounties and ...