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 ...

Germany celebrates the 35th anniversary of its reunification this month. To Europeans born since, it must be hard to imagine ...

In early August 1961, a letter arrived at the Berlin Zoo’s administration office. A visitor’s annual pass had been taken away because she’d fed animals without permission. Not so very long before, ...

The German capital, Berlin, is in the middle of a makeover. After decades of being split between East and West, it was united when the Berlin Wall fell 17 years ago. The East is being renovated or ...

To many Germans, Harald Jaeger is the man who opened the Berlin Wall. It's a legacy that still makes the former East German border officer uncomfortable 25 years after he defied his superiors' orders ...

This article was originally published in U.S. News & World Report on July 18, 1983. WEST BERLIN—Nothing symbolizes the rivalry between the Communist world and the Western democracies more dramatically ...

BERLIN — Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German capital — divided for decades by bricks and barbed wire — has slowly grown back together. Few visible scars remain other than those ...

Rubble from Second World War devastation lying in the street. Enemy soldiers chatting at a checkpoint. A lone tram photographed through barbed wire. This is the haunting, eerie city of Berlin at the ...