Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tourists at the border fence of Mödlareuth, a village in eastern Germany known as "Little Berlin." Andreas Drouve/dpa Two families ...
Yahoo: AP Photos: 35 years after the Berlin Wall opened, fragments of East Germany's border remain
BERLIN (AP) — Most of communist East Germany's heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of the Berlin ...
AP Photos: 35 years after the Berlin Wall opened, fragments of East Germany's border remain
Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...
As the West resolutely girded for any Communist-made showdown on Berlin, East German Puppet Boss Walter Ulbricht showed signs of nervousness. He ordered the 100,000 men of East Germany’s “People’s ...
Near the East German village of Wandlitz, nine miles to the east of Berlin, is a most unusual settlement. It is a walled-in compound of semi-forested land and wide lawns, within which sit some 20 ...
KHRUSHCHEV’S visits to Berlin have become the most significant single feature of the East German year. In 1957 the Soviet Premier bestowed his blessing before the Volkskammer on the plan to form a ...