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 ...

BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its ...

Twenty-one years ago, as Germany’s capital was starting to stabilize after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the upheaval of reunification, Mayor Klaus Wowereit gave the city a label that would ...