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 ...

A crash with injuries has been reported on East Berlin Road in East Berlin, Adams County. The severity of injuries has not been confirmed. Sharing brings us closer together. If this story happened ...

Erika Schallert fled East Berlin on August 15, 1961, with nothing but the clothes she was wearing and her half-finished wedding dress, determined that nothing was going to stop her getting married — ...

Peter Keup can still remember how it felt to hold deutsche marks in his hand. “It was special to even touch this money,” he recalls. “It felt solid. The East German mark was thinner, flimsier.” As a ...

In early August 1961, a letter arrived at the Berlin Zoo’s administration office. A visitor’s annual pass had been taken away because she’d fed animals without permission. Not so very long before, ...

Major work has begun on transforming a long-abandoned East German theme park in Berlin into a cultural site with art galleries and spaces for artists’ residencies in the historic 19th-century ...

Reporting from Venice, Italy — In 1962, two men from East Berlin attempted a daring escape to the West. Peter Fechter and Helmut Kulbeik were young — all of 18. On Aug. 17, the pair slipped away from ...

I still remember the smell of East Berlin. It struck me immediately, when I first visited as a journalist for the Belgian newspaper De Standaard in December 1984: the dull sulfur smell of brown coal.

Tourists in front of the Berlin Wall in Germany at the Brandenburg Gate in June 1989; people walk near the same monument in October. (Photos: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters, Alexander Koerner/Getty Images) ...

The German capital, Berlin, is in the middle of a makeover. After decades of being split between East and West, it was united when the Berlin Wall fell 17 years ago. The East is being renovated or ...

East Germany holds its only free and fair elections. Lothar de Maiziere becomes prime minister and negotiates a treaty for unification. BERLIN — Lothar de Maizière, the first (and last) freely elected ...