The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border ... there by crossing a river ...

On 13 August 1961 a barbed wire fence was erected along the border between East and West Berlin ... wall, complete with lookout towers and armed guards who had orders to shoot anyone trying to ...

The checkpoint was designated as the only crossing for foreigners and allied troops when the city was divided. East and West Berlin were separated by the Berlin Wall from 1961-89. The ban comes as ...

But EU leaders are increasingly convinced the only way to preserve it is to ringfence the passport-free Schengen Zone with tough border controls ... the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are now ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...