Braking to a halt, it’s strange to think that stepping on the ground beneath my tyres would have meant certain death 30 years ago. Now a wooded cycle path beside restless urban railway lines ...

While the Wall stood, the zone between East and West Berlin was a potentially deadly space. But since the end of the Cold War, it has mostly stood barren. Now a Dutch landscape architect wants to ...

The Berlin Wall bricklayer whose death became instrumental in its destruction The fatal shooting of Peter Fechter created a simmering fury that was only becalmed when, on an astonishing night 30 ...

Along with history, the 100-mile hiker-biker trail where the Berlin Wall stood offers new possibilities for people and nature.

They left him to die on the death strip. The wall was ground zero, where nearly half a century of Cold War began and where, one cold gray day in November 1989, I watched it end.

Chris Gueffroy died in February, 1989 while trying to flee across the Berlin Wall. He was the last East German citizen to fall victim to the state's policy of shooting escapees in the divided city.

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 ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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 ...

• What the world saw as the Berlin Wall was actually two concrete barriers with a 160-yard "death strip" in between that included watchtowers, trenches, runs for guard dogs, flood lights and ...