Berlin is divided by light. The contrast is a legacy from the Cold War, when Germany was divided from east to west as tensions mounted between America and the West, against Russia. Berlin was ...

The heavily fortified border —the Berlin Wall— plugged the last gap between East and West. On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched.

2 A car crossing from East to West Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie in October 1964. The crossing was the only point through which foreigners were permitted to pass. 7 East German soldiers patrolling ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall that separated West and East Berlin from Aug. 13, 1961, to Nov. 9, 1989, is known as the monumental event that marked the end of the Cold War. The following year ...

Emergency crews were called to the scene of a vehicle crash on West King Street at Second Avenue in East Berlin Borough at 9:20 a.m. on Saturday, June 1, according to Adams County 911 records.

Behind the dancers is a West Berlin building covered in scaffolding ... true that the bulk of the reinvention was in the former East Berlin. Among the most famous projects to emerge from the ...

Most were civilians trying to flee to the West from communist East Germany. The 327 includes 262 who died at the Berlin Wall, and 24 East German border guards who were shot while on duty.

an 18-year-old high school graduate from Berlin, said the fact that her family lived in East Germany during the decades of the country's division has no impact on her life today. "East or West ...

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.