A chilling memory has haunted me for weeks. Once, in late winter 1972, a time when the Cold War was precarious, I was on the night train from Poznan, Poland, to Berlin, approaching the East German ...

Editor’s note: Story was originally published on Nov. 9. 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 9, 1989, communist East Germany threw open its ...

Germany’s most peaceful landscape owes its existence to one of its most paranoid. The Grünes Band — the Green Belt threading 860 miles along the former border between West Germany and communist East ...

(CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a symbol of ...

For years, people living near the German-Polish frontier took the open border for granted in their daily lives. With the re-introduction of border checks, all that is changing. The bridge that ...