BERLIN (Reuters) - A recently unearthed document has provided new evidence of written orders to East German soldiers to shoot would-be escapers to the West, fuelling debate about who was to blame for ...
BERLIN (AP) — Most of communist East Germany's heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of the Berlin ...
A chilling memory has haunted me for weeks. Once, in late winter 1972, a time when the Cold War was precarious, I was on the night train from Poznan, Poland, to Berlin, approaching the East German ...
(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 ...
Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the Cold War's most infamous border. Berlin's "anti-fascist ...
Editor’s note: Story was originally published on Nov. 9. 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 9, 1989, communist East Germany threw open its ...
The court handed down a guilty verdict and a 10-year sentence to a former officer of East Germany’s dreaded secret police, in a case straight out of the Cold War. By Christopher F. Schuetze ...
One November night 35 years ago, the Berlin Wall cracked and thousands of Berliners poured through. The Iron Curtain had already started to tremor by this point: travel restrictions were easing in ...
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