One used to be an East German border guard; the other grew up just west of the border and started bird-watching in the area at 13. “You might have seen me here with my big binoculars,” says ...

show that east-west differences persist, as was recently shown in a collection of maps tweeted by researcher Tomas Pueyo. Demarcated by the internal border, former East German states include ...

But he said the shots that hit Tews could have come from Peter Goering, the first East German border guard to be killed after the wall was built. He was shot dead when West German police opened ...

East Germany's leadership had already sealed off the country's main border with West Germany, which snaked from the Baltic Sea to Czechoslovakia, in 1952. The 96-mile-long wall was built by the ...

The stark east-west divide in national vote share from Germany’s national election on Sunday has been revealed in new data. News agency Reuters has created a map using result figures that show a ...

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.

Some time in the next quarter-hour, the plane somehow veered 60° east off course ... in a ponderous effort to make it back to the West German border 22 miles away. But now there were six MIGs ...

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.