To finish the job, the Trump administration must double down on economic sanctions, strengthen U.S. military deterrence in ...

The East Side Gallery refers to the longest intact section of the Berlin Wall, which stretches for nearly a mile. If you want to experience the wall for the first time, this is the place to do it.

Of the 56 professional teams in Germany's top three leagues, only six hail from the east. Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the geographical divisions of men's and women's football remain.

Hoyer interweaves the experiences of ordinary East German citizens to illustrate what daily life was like under communist ...

Balloons, tunnels, secret compartments—even homemade aircraft. From 1961 to 1989, desperate East Germans tried everything to ...

While the Nazis and their counterparts attacked a wide range of artists as “degenerate,” the Stasi worked with and supported entertainers and writers.

On 13 August 1961 a barbed wire fence was erected along the border between East and West Berlin. The wire would quickly be replaced by a concrete wall, complete with lookout towers and armed ...

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin is divided by light. The contrast is a legacy from the Cold War, when Germany was divided from east to west as tensions mounted between ...

In 1961, Russia built a wall armed with 302 machine gun towers, to prevent people escaping from East Berlin to freedom in the West. I was there working on a 1974 project at Humboldt University.

East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their ...