Imagine it's 1966, and you're living in East Berlin, a city divided by the infamous Berlin Wall. The East German government, desperate to prevent citizens from fleeing to the West, has fortified every ...

The show explores the often-overlooked history of Jewish life in East Germany, a country that existed for roughly 40 years following World War II until shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in ...

3 A couple look over the wall into East Berlin in April 1983. Salter says the testing of anti-vehicle barriers was only one part of a vast research-and-development effort to trap people inside the ...

11/12/2023 November 12, 2023. Trainspotters have one last chance to see Berlin's beloved Model 485s, known to fans as "Coke Cans," before the city decommissions the last of its GDR S-Bahn trains.

You can find the Sonnenallee on any Berlin map. Since the Wall fell in 1989, this long street running through the district of Neukölln no longer has a disputed border of world-historical ...

East Berlin, late November 1987, around midnight. In the basement of an old tenement building, 14-year-old Tim Eisenlohr is stapling pages coming off a printer smuggled in from the West.