the administration paid little attention to East Germany; in the second half of the year, beginning with the huge exodus of East Germans to the West but especially after the opening of the Wall ...

Berlin, Germany, 1975: A simple task like changing ... Guards like this one killed at least 133 people trying to flee to the West during the wall’s existence from 1961 to 1989.

The film chronicles the history of Berlin from 1939 to the 1960s, highlighting the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, the onset ...

In 1955, West Germany joined NATO ... take extreme steps—most notably the construction of the infamous Berlin Wall—in an attempt to stem the exodus. The construction and ongoing operation ...

The maladies of East Germany are usually economic ... typical disease of the Wall. Before the Wall went up, we could at least buy green vegetables in West Berlin, but all winter long we got ...