29 people from the communist East vanished here into a tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall and emerged, 12 minutes and 140 metres later, in West Berlin. It was one of at least 75 escape tunnels dug ...

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 ...

Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom, even by killing them. 1 A vehicle smashes into a steel barrier at a ...

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.

Berlin is a city known for its complex history. It is home to one of the most iconic symbols of the Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie. This historic border crossing, located in the heart of Berlin ...

Set in 1980s East Berlin, the British-German co-production is based on the tragic true story of young East German Chris Gueffroy in the lead up to his attempted escape from the isolated Eastern ...

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A human tide of East Berliners poured into West Berlin ... they could take home people," Spitzner says. Peter and his wife Ingrid began seriously thinking about escape in July 1989.

BERLIN (AP) — Two people died on Friday after jumping from a building in Berlin to escape a fire on an upper floor, authorities said. An apartment on the 12th floor of a 15th-story residential ...