A town in eastern Germany is offering two weeks free accommodation to encourage people to relocate there in a bid to boost ...

15, 2022. AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans – told they were free to travel anywhere – wept, hugged, danced and kissed in both halves of divided Berlin today after East Germany opened ...

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 ...

In reality, the wall, which turned East Berlin into a vast open-air prison, was a desperate measure by East Germany's government to stop millions of its own citizens fleeing to freedom after ...

Situated near the former border between East and West Berlin, it played a central role in the city's divided history. Once ...

We're opening the floodgates now," he announced. A human tide of East Berliners poured into West Berlin. Within the hour, all seven of the wall's crossing points had been thrown open and a giant ...

The wall had its origins in the end of World War II, when Germany was carved into four pieces and occupied by Allied powers. Although Berlin was located about 90 miles east from the border between ...

5 This grid of sharpened rebar was one of countless such grates placed alongside the Berlin Wall from the mid-1960s, designed to pierce the shoes of fleeing East Germans. This section of "Stalin's ...

East Germany’s political collapse was mirrored in football, but a focus on youth brings hope for the future. Just over 50 ...

East and West Berliners flocked to the wall and began tearing it down. The wall was soon destroyed and Berlin was unified for the first time since 1945. The destruction of the Berlin Wall is ...