Between 1961 and 1984 there were approximately 70 tunnels dug, 19 of which led to the successful escape of about 300 people from East Berlin. Picture: Carsten Koall/Getty Images. A sign saying ...

BERLIN – An escape tunnel underneath the Berlin ... the courage of the women and men who tried to take people to freedom and resisted the East German regime,” he said. The tunnel was built ...

BERLIN (AP) — An escape tunnel underneath the Berlin ... the courage of the women and men who tried to take people to freedom and resisted the East German regime," he added.

From 1961 to 1989, desperate East Germans tried everything to break through the Berlin Wall. Some made it. Many didn’t. Garth Brooks found Nashville 'gutted' after returning to country music ...

People peer through the Berlin Wall in 1990 as the dismantling ... 1,065 people who died while trying to escape from former communist East Germany. Police cars and demonstrators stand in front ...

Through the decades the wall was in place, thousands of people managed to escape from East Berlin, but at least 140 were killed in the attempt, many of them shot by East German border guards.

Although Berlin was located about 90 miles east from the border between ... and barbed wire to discourage escape attempts. Still, over 5,000 people managed to reach western Europe.

Now, what remains of the purpose-built wall designed to prevent people escaping from East Berlin to the West during the Cold War is a veritable hidden gem right under the nose of anyone visiting ...

In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that the US president, John F Kennedy, would not try to stop him.