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 between East and West Berlin.

For months, the East Germans and Soviets had threatened a new Berlin cri sis if the West Germans persisted in their plan to convene the Federal Republic’s electoral college in the western half ...

It's with surprising ease that Robert Kee steps across the border from East to West Berlin as, before the erection of the wall, the division that split the city was all but invisible. In his ...

East Side Gallery 3-kilometer section of the Berlin Wall. Following the Wall's fall in 1989, artists from around the world came together to transform this bleak structure into a canvas of hope and ...

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 ...

Attractions are spread out along the old political boundaries of east and west Berlin ... the former border gate that marked the American sector of Berlin after World War II.