but the wall went straight across, leaving a triangle of East Berlin on the western side of the wall. It remained even when the wire fence became a fortified double wall with a mined and tripwired ...

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.

Magdeburg's transformation from continental kings to a second-tier side reflects the ... only six hail from the east. Decades ...

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War.

Newsweek’s then-Berlin ... went to the wall frequently in the days following Nov. 9 to capture the moment. He told Mark Kurlansky for his 1995 book “A Chosen Few” that East Germans ...

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 ...

Germans commemorated on Sunday the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which on Nov. 9, 1989, ended a years-long divide between East and West Germany. Twenty five years ago Sunday ...

When the wall ... from one side of the city to the other, according to the AP. Daniela Augenstine, who worked in Berlin's street furniture department, told The Guardian that the east uses sodium ...

Kevin had visited East Germany several times ... of our 1989 trip was a special side trip to Berlin to participate in the historical tearing down of the wall at Checkpoint Charlie and other ...