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 ...

The rifle was made from sheet metal stampings ... The MP-5 was adopted by West German Border Guards in 1966, and later was adopted by the Border Guards’ elite counterterrorism unit, GSG-9.

The typical line of defence of former East German border guards is that they were serving a legal government and applying what was then state policy. Young Wilhelm was rescued from the river bank by a ...

The photos, taken by West German border guards just five months before the Berlin Wall was opened, stirred anger throughout West Germany. The acquittal was another failure for the Berlin ...

Three former East German border guards were acquitted Friday of shooting a 14-year-old boy as he escaped across the Berlin Wall four decades ago, closing a trial that brought the victim face-to ...

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,” said ...

A computer game set in the Cold War which allows people to play as East German border ... medals to "guards" if they shoot a high number of East Germans trying to escape to the West.