Just three years later, after reunification with West Germany, they had to find out for themselves. On a free day, Bernd picked us up in his Trabant, the much-maligned car of East German manufacture.

From 1945 to 1989, the border between East and West Germany was a painful site, a physical manifestation of the Iron Curtain that divided capitalist and communist Europe during the Cold War.

PRAGUE – The Iron Curtain was traced by an electrified barbed-wire fence that isolated the communist world from the West. It was an impenetrable Cold War barrier — and for some inhabitants of ...

"There was an Iron Curtain across the continent that was not to be crossed." Profe's Polish is halting, and Mackiewicz's German, much better in youth, has grown rusty with disuse.

Hirschbach, 84, died of cancer Dec. 12, after a lifetime of studying German language, literature and culture. He taught in the department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch studies since 1958, served ...

John Connelly Book review: ‘Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe,’ by Anne Applebaum October 26, 2012 More than 12 years ago ...

Documents reveal former British PM bitterly opposed German unification. — -- Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has never forgotten the hostility he faced at a European meeting on December ...

“There was an Iron Curtain across the continent that was not to be crossed.” Profe’s Polish is halting, and Mackiewicz’s German, much better in youth, has grown rusty with disuse.