When Bowie arrived in early '76, just over 13 years before the Berlin Wall came down, escaping East Germans were still being shot on the "death strip" in the heart of the city. John Le Carre's ...

In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany ... many were still prepared to take the risk even though they risked being ...

Located in the east and some distance from the West German border, Berlin had also been divided ... frantic messages from ...

For months, the East Germans and Soviets had threatened a new Berlin cri sis if the West Germans persisted in their plan to convene the Federal Republic’s electoral college in the western half ...

He was an influential figure in the peaceful revolution that brought down the Berlin Wall. The theologian and East German civil rights activist Friedrich Schorlemmer has died at the age of 80.