Thousands of East Berliners have relatives and friends in West Berlin and in West Germany, separated from them by the Wall and the barbed wire. In many cases mother is separated from son ...

Since November when the mass movement in East Germany began to effect significant ... Secretary of State James Baker's speech in West Berlin on December 12 illustrated the administration's attitude.

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 ...

Even after the German armies capitulated in World War II, a fanatic Wehrmacht general, commanding a force of last-ditch Nazis, held out against the Russians in a Bohemian mountain redoubt.

November 9, 1989 sitting watching TV as the Berlin Wall was breached and destroyed under cover of night. I was glued to the ...

A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...

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 ...

One May day in 1953, a good-looking brunette walked into the Berlin headquarters of U.S ... on Soviet troops and military operations in East Germany. Dark Hobby. In their fascination with her ...

"Basically what became West Germany in the future was always an integral part of Western Europe … whereas, until the year 1200, Berlin [in the east] was just a Slavic fishing village with no ...

Get to know the best areas in the German capital, home to plenty of affordable independent hotels as well as big-hitting luxury stays Although Berlin is a famously sprawling city, most of its best ...