When viewers of the documentary film Life Behind the Berlin Wall were informed that citizens of the German Democratic Republic ... Throughout the Cold War it was typically said that the army ...

U.S. Army investigators determined that Nicholson’s death was “officially condoned, if not directly ordered” by the Soviet leadership. The Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown ...

Hidden in the forests of eastern Germany are relics of the Cold War. This documentary follows experts as they search for clues and uncover secrets in the bunkers of the former East Germany.

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.

On 13 August 1961, the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some of his audience grew up in communist East Germany behind the Berlin Wall. During the Cold War, Germany's dogged negotiation and engagement with Moscow contributed to the fall of the Berlin ...

A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...