BMW retells the incredible story of Klaus-Günter Jacobi and his efforts to help his best friend make it to West Berlin in the 1960s. Kyle Hyatt (he/him/his) hails originally from the Pacific Northwest ...

Berlin, September 1963: When the government of East Berlin used loudspeakers to drown out a speech by West German President Heinrich Luebke in the western sector of the city, retaliation came in the ...

This month, 30 years ago, the Berlin Wall finally came down, and Germany began the process of re-unification. Before that, though, Berlin (and Germany) was split, with East Berlin transformed into a ...

BERLIN is being defended by the West at high risk. The chances for holding the city seem good, but victory will be hollow if the economy of West Berlin fails, as the Communists hope. Before the Cuban ...

East Berlin, June 1963: Two spectators, obviously concealing their unbounded enthusiasm, hold large cutout photos of East German leader Walter Ulbricht and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev as they ...

HÖLLERER: The question to begin with is, why should Berlin, in spite of its unfavorable position, still be the chief center of German literature? Why, for instance, should Gunter Grass be here and not ...

Since the hated Wall went up in 1961, escapees have ingeniously gotten past it by tunneling, climbing, jumping, or by just knocking it down. Last week a young Austrian outdid them all, smuggling out ...