Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are ...
many of them shot by East German border guards. The wall was toppled on November 9, 1989, amid massive protests both inside and outside East Germany, a police state that collapsed along with its ...
It stayed that way until the border was opened on Nov. 9, 1989. The Bornholmer Strasse crossing in Berlin was the first to open that night. Border guards ... the main East-West German border ...
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock visited a Ukrainian border region on Tuesday at the end of a two-day visit to the country. Baerbock was shown a command post at the three-way border ...
One surprise announcement by an East German official and suddenly crowds of Berliners rushed to the wall’s checkpoints, hoping for a chance to cross. The border guards, overwhelmed and ...
One surprise announcement by an East German official and suddenly crowds of Berliners rushed to the wall’s checkpoints, hoping for a chance to cross. The border guards, overwhelmed and unprepared, ...