Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...
When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...
Erika Schallert fled East Berlin on August 15, 1961, with nothing but the clothes she was wearing and her half-finished wedding dress, determined that nothing was going to stop her getting married — ...
Reporting from Venice, Italy — In 1962, two men from East Berlin attempted a daring escape to the West. Peter Fechter and Helmut Kulbeik were young — all of 18. On Aug. 17, the pair slipped away from ...
In early August 1961, a letter arrived at the Berlin Zoo’s administration office. A visitor’s annual pass had been taken away because she’d fed animals without permission. Not so very long before, ...
Tourists in front of the Berlin Wall in Germany at the Brandenburg Gate in June 1989; people walk near the same monument in October. (Photos: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters, Alexander Koerner/Getty Images) ...
That’s the case for "Herbetta," a Volkswagen Beetle whose story captured hearts across the country after a handwritten letter ...
Major work has begun on transforming a long-abandoned East German theme park in Berlin into a cultural site with art galleries and spaces for artists’ residencies in the historic 19th-century ...
The German capital, Berlin, is in the middle of a makeover. After decades of being split between East and West, it was united when the Berlin Wall fell 17 years ago. The East is being renovated or ...
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