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.

On Monday morning, German border police were ready to start passport checks at all its land borders. Queues at the crossings, particularly in the north and west of Germany, were expected ahead of ...

In September, Germany expanded border controls in the east and south to include the west and north for six months, citing irregular migration, cross-border crime, and terrorist threats.

About an hour into the rambling news conference, Schabowski mentioned that East Germany was lifting all restrictions on travel across its border into West Germany. Pressed on when the new ...

The month before the picnic, the foreign ministers of Hungary and Austria had symbolically snipped the border fence, the physical "Iron Curtain" between the West ... up in East Germany - an ...

9, 1989, who announced that the the country was lifting its travel restrictions across its border into West Germany. The offhand comment — that East Germany was opening the Berlin Wall and the ...