Germany is planning to pump billions into defense spending, but the need to better prepare goes well beyond the Bundeswehr.

One of the most daring escapes of the Cold War involved nothing but shovels and ... In 1962, they dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall and helped dozens of people flee to freedom.

As Germany's election approaches, some candidates are calling for a crackdown on "imported anti-Semitism." Berlin Palestinians, already feeling silenced, now fear deportations. Soeren Stache/dpa ...

The meeting underlined the differences between the Allied powers, and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would ... Germany and the divided city of Berlin. In 1946, a Russian-based ...

During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon was an everyday fear. By the 1980s ... The German capital Berlin, which was in the Soviet zone, would also be divided into four.

An infamous border passage in East Germany calls to mind the need for compassion in this country for those on the wrong side ...

Planning to cross the Inner German Border during the Cold War in a gigantic hot-air balloon ... but were hindered by the Berlin Wall. Balloon tells the story of two friends, an electrician and ...