BERLIN (AP) — Most of communist East Germany's heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of the Berlin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: East Berlin border guards stand atop the Berlin Wall at the Brandeburg Gate faced by thousands of West Berliners on ...

The Polish government is going to discuss with Berlin the issue of German border controls in order to abandon them after ...

Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the Cold War's most infamous border. Berlin's "anti-fascist ...

BERLIN — An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided ...

A former member of communist East Germany's secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided Berlin in 1974, prosecutors said Thursday.

An 80-year-old former Stasi officer has gone on trial for the killing of a Polish man at a Berlin border crossing 50 years ago. The suspect, unnamed due to German privacy rules, faces murder charges ...

The Berlin Administrative Court declared on Monday that the rejection of asylum seekers at German borders to be unlawful, dealing a major blow to Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Interior Minister ...

A former East German secret police officer was sentenced to 10 years in jail in a landmark ruling on Monday for shooting dead a Polish man trying to flee to the West 50 years ago. The sentence, almost ...