A town in eastern Germany is offering two weeks free accommodation to encourage people to relocate there in a bid to boost ...

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 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 ...

1 A vehicle smashes into a steel barrier at a secret testing location in East Germany where obstacles ... such grates placed alongside the Berlin Wall from the mid-1960s, designed to pierce ...

"East Germany had to pay war reparations to the ... which marks the former course of the Berlin Wall in the then-divided city. She also said that growing up, she had not experienced any ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on his conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) to focus more on the east of the ...

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May ...

The Berlin Wall: A Divide That Once Shaped German Women's Lives Still Echoes Today BERLIN (AP) — Like many other young women living in communist East Germany, Solveig Leo thought nothing about ...