BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) -- East German Communist police today hurled tear gas into crowds of jeering West Berliners protesting the closing of the border ... East German guards fire on fleeing ...

Helena Merriman tells the extraordinary true story of a man who dug a tunnel right under the feet of Berlin Wall border guards to help friends, family and strangers escape.

sinister meaning when it’s being done in the “no-man’s land” on the Communist side of the Berlin Wall. Guards like this one killed at least 133 people trying to flee to the West during the ...

Sitting on the Berlin Wall would have been unheard of just ... More importantly, border guards refused to shoot. In now ...

The Berlin Wall had watch-towers, anti-tank devices, ditches, barbed wire, guard dogs, powerful searchlights and minefields to prevent escapes. The only legal way across the border was through ...

Thirty-two years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are now ... president Ursula von der Leyen after guards fought off people with teargas on its border with Turkey. Athens completed ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...