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 ...

The border guards on the Communist side of the Berlin Wall could hardly believe their ... Plans call for the building of a four-obstacle ring made up of a high metal cyclone fence, a 6-ft.- ...

What they probably don’t know is that the trail continues for the entirety of the wall’s 100-mile perimeter around what was formerly West Berlin ... rail operator, building a tunnel underneath ...

The Oscar-winning actor and musician, 51, was spotted climbing the wall of a hotel in Berlin on Monday without ... star scaled the stone facade of the building’s corner before tapping the ...

The art of this storied city, political or otherwise, tends toward the gritty, the weird and the reliably cutting-edge. Berlin’s East Side Gallery is a long stretch of wall segments muraled ...