Passport forgery and sewer crawling were, until recently, the unacademic pursuits of a group of West Berlin’s most serious university students. Their object: to smuggle as many East Berliners as ...

The East Side Gallery refers to the longest intact section of the Berlin Wall, which stretches for nearly a mile. If you want to experience the wall for the first time, this is the place to do it.

A 66-year-old Berlin woman has given birth to a healthy ... to the city’s decades of division and escape attempts from East Berlin. In recent years, though, she has attracted more headlines ...

Berlin is divided by light. The contrast is a legacy from the Cold War, when Germany was divided from east to west as tensions mounted between America and the West, against Russia. Berlin was ...

There was a growing contrast between life in the West and life in the East. In West Berlin and West Germany, the economy recovered well. Rebuilding and economic aid from the USA (Marshall Aid ...