It was pulled off by a group of brave West German students led by Joachim Rudolph. In 1962, they dug a tunnel under the ...

The Cold War was a global event ... States to create a holistic image of the Cold War World. These collections draw from a wide range of documents written in/about North America, Asia, the Middle East ...

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War.

Little wonder that German TV creators are now looking to their own recent past for material. The following series dwell on the history of the Cold War and the rise and fall of East Germany. Set in a ...

During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon was ... Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. They also made a similar commitment to defend each other.

Britain had been at war with Germany since Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Despite the fact that Stalin had carved up and invaded Poland in 1939 alongside Hitler, the USSR allied itself ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry Truman met in the German town ... for a post-war "cold" war that would ...

The AfD enjoys much of its support in the former communist east ... So as Cold War comparisons hover over European security, the politics of that period has also renewed itself in Germany in ...

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is an excellent contemporary espionage ... ripe for cultivation by East German Communist secret police as a potential defector.

Reproduced with permission In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners ... Yugoslav and Bulgarian construction materials, Romanian and East German standard designs, as well as professionals ...