East German border policemen, right, refuse to shake hands with a Berliner who stretches out his hand over the border fence at the eastern site nearby Checkpoint Charlie border crossing point ...

In October 1989 – exactly 35 years ago – he took to the streets, alongside 70,000 other East Germans, aware that the secret policemen in ... that the East German regime was unable to suppress ...

None of the East German border guards were suspicious one morning last week when the comfortable old Friedrich Wolf slipped its mooring and chugged down the River Spree (pronounced Shpray), which ...

More than 600 of them died in the process, often shot dead by East German border guards. A few weeks after Martin N. shot Kukuczka, the East German state honored him for “rendering harmless” the ...