The wall was never a single barrier but three separate ramparts, sealing off a no man’s land of guard towers, patrol roads and razor wire known as the Todesstreifen, or “Death Strip,” which ...

Mauerpark is a lively public park that occupies what was once part of the Berlin Wall's death strip. On Sundays, it transforms into a bustling hub of activity with flea markets, street food, and ...

While the West’s eyes were focused on Walter Ulbricht’s ugly Berlin wall, a greater, equally ugly wall was being built —almost unnoticed by the world—along the entire East-West German ...

Sandwiched between was a no-man’s-land (“death strip”) between 10 and 50 yards wide, patrolled by sentry towers spaced along the length of the wall.

Sandwiched between was a no-man's-land ("death strip") between 10 and 50 yards wide, patrolled by sentry towers spaced along the length of the wall.

From one of them you can access an observation tower to peer down into a complete stretch of the “wall system” (with both sides of its wall and death strip all preserved intact).

The Communist Gropos guarding the Wall last week took out their frustration on a frolicsome dachshund and a sheep dog who strayed through the wire and began sniffing about in the death strip on ...

So, from the East Berlin side, you would first approach a wall. If you somehow got over that wall and got into the death strip, there were all sorts of trip wires.

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.

The first breach in the Berlin Wall at 10.30pm on 9 November 1989. East German border guards look on from the ‘Death Strip’ (Brian Harris/The Independent) ...