Border troops of the Army - the Grenztruppen were formed to protect the inner border with Western Germany, Poland and ...

A 10-building mixed-use enclave with high-end housing, retail, and office space now ensconces the former countercultural ...

Did you know Central New York holds pieces of the Berlin Wall? Discover where these Cold War relics are hidden and their ...

August: The Soviets and German Democratic Republic block movement by East Berliners into the West and begin construction of a Berlin Wall dividing the two parts of the city. April 16: Clay dies.

The half-naked protester was filmed defacing remnants of the Berlin Wall kept outside the German embassy in Ukraine capital Kyiv on Sunday with a Hitler mustache and swept-over cropped dark hair ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...

For 28 years a 155km-long concrete wall snaked through the centre of Berlin, separating the Soviet-backed East from the capitalist West. Built in 1961 to stop residents from fleeing communist ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact of the Wall on international relations Test your knowledge In the late 1950s, issues around Berlin sparked off one of the ...

The Second World War and the long division of the city by the infamous Berlin wall helped to end all that. But since the wall came down in the early 1990s, the reunified city has been gradually ...

More than three decades after the fall of the Wall, the formerly divided Berlin has emerged as one ... constantly popping up around the city, and abandoned World War II- and Soviet-era buildings ...