Most were civilians trying to flee to the West from communist East Germany. The 327 includes 262 who died at the Berlin Wall, and 24 East German border guards who were shot while on duty.

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

(CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a ...

An 80-year-old former officer of East Germany's secret police has been put on trial for the murder of a Polish man at a Berlin border crossing 50 years ago.

For decades Germany was divided by a 1,400-kilometre border that marked the separation between the Eastern Bloc and the West. Today hikers can explore the country's recent history by walking the ...

An infamous border passage in East Germany calls to mind the need for compassion in this country for those on the wrong side now, worried about the future. Aging for Amateurs: Compassion ...

Leaving Copenhagen at noon on a one-hour flight southwest to Hamburg, U.S.A.F. Captain James Palmer Lundy, 42, a pilot with twelve years' flying experience, set a course of 220°, and then ...

An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided ...

BERLIN (AP) — Frieder Reimold, the former Berlin bureau chief of The Associated Press German-language service who wrote the iconic 1989 bulletin that East Germany had opened its borders, has ...