Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a symbol of East/West ...

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.

I keep thinking of that iconic 1991 film which so brilliantly portrayed an East German family in the first throes of freedom following the fall of the Berlin Wall jumping into their Trabant car to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Berlin Wall began as a border of barbed wire fencing and evolved into a fortified concrete barrier with armed East German border guards. East Germany militarized the entire border with the ...

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.

After the wall came down in 1989, right-wing radicalism boomed in former East Germany. Riots in 1991 and 1992 in cities of Rostock and Hoyerswerda saw racist participants attacking refugee ...

Germany marked 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell with festivities on Saturday under the theme "Preserve Freedom!", against the somber backdrop of war in Gaza and Ukraine, and fears ...

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.

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