The G3 could fire rifle grenades from the muzzle without ... a nine-millimeter submachine gun that became popular with West German border guards, counter-terrorist units and U.S. Navy SEALS.

Especially East and West Germany ... the poor East German border guard, or whoever he was, must have been miserable. He surveiled our side of the border through rifle scopes and powerful binoculars.

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 ...

Two men huddled in the bush on the West Berlin side of the notorious “Anti-Fascist Protection Wall.” They intently scanned the East German Border Guard tower ... AKM assault rifle, the MPi ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...