(Revisit National Geographic's reporting from West Berlin before the wall fell.) East Germans began fleeing through the more permeable border between East and West Berlin instead. At one point ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned ... British and French forces before trips to East Berlin, and foreign tourists ...

The Communists’ East German wall was virtually ... on the tense and anxious Berlin frontier more and more armed men faced each other with weapons at the ready. Just before midnight, word of ...

Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an urgent telegram reaches Carl ... but he lasts only a few weeks in Gera before surreptitiously breaking out for East Berlin, guided only by a vague ...

For 28 years a 155km-long concrete wall snaked through the centre of Berlin, separating the Soviet ... "You could never do ...

Ten years later, Cramer pushed for and got unanimous support in the Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus to build the Mauerweg ... who died roughly nine months before the wall fell, was convinced to go ...

When Reagan said, “As long as the gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted ... glasnost continued to build on the inflexible, aging regime in East Berlin.

More than 100 people died trying to cross from East to West Berlin before the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989. Rothweiler, who later brought EWTN to Germany in 2000, sees John Paul II’s ...