Checkpoint Charlie was the most popular border crossing between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War. It has also had a starring role in major films, including the James Bond franchise.

On December 4, 1989, the artist Gabriele Stötzer and a group of women organized the occupation of the local Stasi building in Erfurt. Although the borders between East and West Germany were ...

01/15/2025 January 15, 2025 The Ministry for State Security, or Stasi for short, was the GDR's secret police. It spied on and monitored citizens, imprisoned opposition members, and carried out ...

But his assertive statements, such as questioning whether the unequal living standards in the former East and West Germanys could ever be evened out, broke taboos in the German political ...

Last week Schörner came back from the dead. Released from a brainwashing camp somewhere in the Soviet Union, he arrived in East Germany to take over “a military post.” When the Communists ...

Sven Liebich, who was convicted last year on charges of inciting hatred and defamation, is appealing his 18-month prison sentence in the east German state of Saxony. But in an unusual twist to his ...

Baseball insider Keith Law debates whether signing Charlie Morton will help the Orioles compete in the AL East. Whoopi Goldberg defends Carrie Underwood's decision to sing at Trump inauguration 25 ...

A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...

Against a darkened TV sound stage, a woman testifies before judges on a bare black platform about how her boss at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, Boger, killed a newly arrived boy.

A private American security company will take over a key checkpoint on the road to northern Gaza in the coming days as Israeli forces withdraw from the area on Saturday, a source familiar with the ...