Families living either side of the wall were also separated and forced to live entirely different lives from each other as "Ossies" or "Wessies" - East or West Germans. West Berlin soon developed ...

For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from fleeing. Independent producers Carl… On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

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 ... Ingo got there by crossing a river on an air mattress ...

Who would have known a holiday trip to Germany in December 1989, would have offered an opportunity to be an eyewitness to, ...

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 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 ...

The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of 1989. For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no ...