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 ...

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 ...

Russia’s invasion of a sovereign Ukraine is a stark echo of the Cold War: A formerly Soviet-dominated country tries to make its own way in the world, its putative success highlighting for Russians a ...

(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 ...

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.

A piece of Berlin history is going on sale. The Schering Stiftung is due to sell off some of its collection on two separate occasions, by way of an auction on December 2 and a selling exhibition in ...

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 ...