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 construction site of the Berlin Wall ...

Germany’s historical Drang nach Osten— push toward the East —has more often than not involved expansion and conquest at its neighbors’ expense. Now West Germany is looking eastward again ...

In a life that crisscrossed the East-West border that once divided Germany, Biermann’s music and principled moral stance made him a rare figure who transcended that barrier.

At the end of the Cold War, East Germany's systematic doping secrets spilled out. The truth on the other side of the Berlin Wall has taken longer to emerge.

When East Germany was split off from the West in the aftermath of World War II, it had 18 million people. In the 15 years since then, 3,400,000 East Germans have fled to the West, leaving behind ...

BERLIN (AP) — Frieder Reimold, the former Berlin bureau chief of The Associated Press German-language service who wrote the iconic 1989 bulletin that East Germany had opened its borders, has ...

The border between East and West Germany shut in 1952, with the divide in Berlin closing in 1961 - separating families and communities overnight.

Frieder Reimold, a former Berlin bureau chief of The Associated Press German-language service who wrote the iconic 1989 bulletin that East Germany had opened its borders, has died. He was 80.

The border between East and West Germany shut in 1952, with the divide in Berlin closing in 1961 - separating families and communities overnight.

Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Frieder Reimold, the former Berlin bureau chief of The Associated Press German-language service who wrote the iconic 1989 bulletin that East Germany had opened its ...

Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Frieder Reimold, the former Berlin bureau chief of The Associated Press German-language service who wrote the iconic 1989 bulletin that East Germany had opened its ...