Explore one of the most dangerous and secretive routes during the Cold War: the transit path from West Germany to West Berlin, cutting through the Soviet-controlled East Germany. This 103-mile ...

Thirty years after the end of WW2 a team of ex-GIs and ex-German soldiers plans to go behind the Iron Curtain, in Soviet controlled East Germany, in order to locate and retrieve a hidden Nazi ...

From 1950 to 1990, East Germany and its people were controlled by the Ministry of State Security, or Stasi, which resembled how the KGB operated in the USSR in that its goal was less about ...

For nearly 30 years the Berlin Wall divided Germany’s biggest city in two, ... UK, and France forces after World War II — surrounded by Soviet-controlled East Germany (a.k.a. the DDR).

"Let's be honest. No one really wants German reunification. No one!"—Nikita Khrushchev to a West German Socialist delegation.While Western diplomats and editorialists continued to ...

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 ...