Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned ... British and French forces before trips to East Berlin, and foreign tourists ...

Ten years later, Cramer pushed for and got unanimous support in the Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus to build the Mauerweg ... who died roughly nine months before the wall fell, was convinced to go ...

The Communists’ East German wall was virtually ... on the tense and anxious Berlin frontier more and more armed men faced each other with weapons at the ready. Just before midnight, word of ...

One quiet moment Harris captured was of an elderly man in East Berlin, carrying shopping bags filled with potatoes, just two days before the wall fell. “He would have been 65-70, a war veteran ...

More than 100 people died trying to cross from East to West Berlin before the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989. Rothweiler, who later brought EWTN to Germany in 2000, sees John Paul II’s ...

Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an urgent telegram reaches Carl ... but he lasts only a few weeks in Gera before surreptitiously breaking out for East Berlin, guided only by a vague ...

When Reagan said, “As long as the gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted ... glasnost continued to build on the inflexible, aging regime in East Berlin.