Attractions are spread out along the old political boundaries of east and west Berlin, with most of the popular sights on the city's east side. Accessible via the Klosterstraße, Brandenburger Tor ...

Officially, the border between East and West Berlin traced a right angle near a ... "The church provided a document from the 1780s: an old map to show that the garden was on church land, which ...

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 ...

Most were civilians trying to flee to the West from communist East Germany. The 327 includes 262 who died at the Berlin Wall, and 24 East German border guards who were shot while on duty.

BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) -- East German Communist police today hurled tear gas into crowds of jeering West Berliners protesting the closing of the border between East and West Berlin.

A house located at 5405 West Canal Road in East Berlin has new owners. The 1,404-square-foot property, built in 1970, was ...

“I was very naive. The singer said, ‘There’s a flat above mine you can borrow, so you don’t have to keep going back to West Berlin. There were no empty flats in East Berlin. To have a flat ...

IN ALMOST the very heart of the Soviet Sector, which is East Berlin ... who fell in the Battle of Berlin. Most of those who have visited the cemetery are from the West Sectors and they are ...

October 7: The Soviets respond to the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany by announcing their own German Democratic Republic in the East. October 1: The new West Berlin constitution comes ...

In the spooky Stasi HQ in Leipzig, now a rather sinister museum, Tobias Hollitzer, the museum’s director, is telling me about ...

Khrushchev became so troubled with this situation that in November 1958 he gave a speech in Moscow in which he gave the West an ultimatum. He demanded that, as Berlin lay in East Germany ...