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 ...

In what became the greatest symbol of the Cold War, the start of the Berlin Wall began overnight of Aug. 13. Shortly after midnight on this day in 1961, East German soldiers begin laying down barbed ...

(Reuters) - Following are key facts about the Berlin Wall, which was erected beginning in the early hours of August 13, 1961 and breached on November 9, 1989. WHY DID EAST GERMANY NEED A WALL? -- ...

For months, the East Germans and Soviets had threatened a new Berlin cri sis if the West Germans persisted in their plan to convene the Federal Republic’s electoral college in the western half of the ...

Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the Cold War's most infamous border. Berlin's "anti-fascist ...

Read up on the latest Deutschland 83 News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Set during the Cold War, this German spy thriller centers on Martin Rauch, a young East German soldier sent ...