Soviet forces finally launched their assault on Berlin on 16 April 1945. Nazi Germany had invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 and killed an estimated 25 million of the country's civilians and ...

BERLIN (AP) — Most of communist East Germany's heavily fortified border was torn down ... Today, a section of Wall slabs with ...

Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom ...

We are one people" Little remains of the Berlin Wall, but a new monument in the German capital will honour the protesters who defied the communist state in 1989 and led the divided nation to ...