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 ...

In 1978, Gunter Wetzel and Peter Strelzyk decided they could no longer live in the communist state of East Germany. So, the ...

Sections of the Berlin Wall remain, including the open-air East Side Gallery.

BERLIN (AP) — An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border crossing in ...

Many East Germans are more sympathetic toward Moscow than their western compatriots, reflecting decades of Soviet ties and disillusionment since reunification. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting ...

For nearly a quarter-century, the Berlin Wall had cut off Communist-ruled East Germany from democratic West Germany and most of the rest of Europe. That changed when the wall was opened Nov. 9, 1989 — ...

BERLIN — A former member of communist East Germany's secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided Berlin in 1974, prosecutors said ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A recently unearthed document has provided new evidence of written orders to East German soldiers to shoot would-be escapers to the West, fuelling debate about who was to blame for ...

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 ...

Seen through the calculating eyes of East Germany’s economic planners, the Berlin Wall has been a huge success. Though a moral outrage and a physical eyesore, it has stanched the drain of manpower ...