The heavily fortified border —the Berlin Wall— plugged the last gap between East and West. On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched.

One of the most iconic reminders of the Cold War era, Checkpoint Charlie, was dismantled on 1990. The iconic checkpost served ...

The crossing was the only point through which foreigners were permitted to pass. ... 10 East Berlin border guards stand atop the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate on November 11, 1989.

The Berlin Administrative Court declared on Monday that the ... court today states that a Dublin check must be carried out. This means that the border crossing has to take place, and Germany has to ...

BERLIN — 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 ...