Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

By Hanna Rantala BERLIN, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Australian director Warwick Thornton said on Tuesday that his new Western drama "Wolfram" marks another step in Aboriginal filmmakers reclaiming their ...

Joseph travels in the German-Polish border region and is captivated by the beautiful structures, historic traditions and respected customs. In Berlin, Joseph takes a Trabi car tour of the city and ...

(CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a symbol of ...

EAST German guards, their tommy guns swinging jauntily at their hips, last week pulled a striped red and white barrier across the autobahn checkpoint at Helmstedt on the border between East and West ...

For more than two decades, West Berlin has lived and prospered despite its isolation inside Communist territory. The economic cost of accomplishing that feat is now getting higher and higher.

BERLIN (Reuters) - With East Germany in the limelight of celebrations of 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, people who spent the Cold War in the capitalist enclave of West Berlin can be ...