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 ...

On Monday morning, German border police were ready to start passport checks at all its land borders. Queues at the crossings, particularly in the north and west of Germany, were expected ahead of ...

the Frankfurter Rundschau demanded. What angered the Rundschau as well as many other Germans was a three-year chain of bombings and killings in West Germany, all unpunished. Most of the victims ...

The Poles are less pliable. They insist that West Germany must recognize the Oder-Neisse line as Germany’s eastern border before any diplomatic ties can be established. The West Germans refuse ...

What had been a fraught border crossing marked by intrusive inspections and suspicious guards became as simple as slipping from Berlin into Brandenburg. Not any more. German angst over irregular ...

The offhand comment — that East Germany was opening the Berlin Wall and the heavily fortified border with West Germany — led Reimold to type out what has become his iconic alert ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Germany’s move to impose controls on all its land borders risks setting off a domino effect that could ...