August 13th stands as a day marked by a tapestry of pivotal events that have shaped the course of human history across the ...

On Aug. 13, 1961, on what would become known as Barbed Wire Sunday, East Germany sealed the border between Berlin’s eastern ...

On this day in 1961, soldiers in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) began construction on the Berlin Wall – separating the communists backed by the Soviet Union from the Federal Republic of ...

Though spared from actual warfare, the tank’s role in deterrence and crisis response was crucial, influencing global military ...

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.

If you lived in East Germany during the communist era, this AKA electric AS-101 bread-slicer was probably your mother's utility cutter. It could cut anything that had to be cut – bread, sausages ...

Meanwhile, East Germany’s standard formula for shopping was the HO or Handelsorganisation in which the typical response to a shopper’s inquiry was “ham wa nich” – we don’t have that.

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 during the Cold War to separate the Soviet-controlled East and the Democratic West. The wall, made of concrete and barbed wire, stood for 28 years.

East Germany: Protest Beyond the Wall 4 minute read TIME January 3, 1969 12:00 AM GMT-5 ...

As Germany celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago on Nov. 9 1989, women look back at how different their lives were under communism in East and capitalism in West Germany.

East Germany built the Berlin Wall in 1961, preventing most of its citizens from traveling to the West. Many tried to escape by tunneling under it, swimming past it, climbing or flying over it.

Only three decades have passed since the Berlin Wall fell. Yet the door to the romanticization of East German communism is already being cracked open by Katja Hoyer with Beyond the Wall: A History ...