As part of his campaign against any political ties between West Germany and West Berlin, East Germany’s Stalinist Boss Walter Ulbricht had wanted to clamp on a full-scale land blockade and to ...

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 ...

West Berlin, a democratic stronghold, is isolated within Communist East Germany, symbolizing a loophole in the Iron Curtain. The film highlights the challenges faced by West Berliners, including ...

She has approached the topic of women in West Germany and the former East Germany as objectively ... You can sign up here for ...

Berlin, Germany ... least 133 people trying to flee to the West during the wall’s existence from 1961 to 1989. VoPo was the nickname used for the East German Volkspolizei, the East German ...

Gregor Gysi will kick off the first session of the new Bundestag when it convenes on Tuesday, March 25. The 77-year-old ...

The work of the first freely-elected People's Chamber ended on October 3, 1990, the day East and West Germany were reunited. The parliamentarians in East Berlin had fulfilled the wishes of the GDR's ...