Border troops of the Army - the Grenztruppen were formed to protect the inner border with Western Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia and the Wall surrounding West Berlin.

East Side Gallery 3-kilometer section of the Berlin Wall. Following the Wall's fall in 1989, artists from around the world ...

(Bloomberg) -- German bonds suffered their worst day since the months following the fall of the Berlin Wall on an historic spending plan that will unlock hundreds of billions of euros for defense ...

German bonds are on track to see their worst day since the months that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall as a spending plan to use €500B to boost growth and increase defense and ...

I went to East Berlin shortly after the Communist dictatorship opened the border and chipped a piece of graffiti’d concrete off the wall that had divided Europe my entire life. Everything changed.

The country emerged from World War II chastened and wary of military culture. This legacy lives on. Katja Hoyer is a ...

February 26th marked the 140th anniversary of one of the most consequential events in the history of Western imperialism: the ...

A Russian tycoon who last year infuriated neighbours by building a 'Berlin Wall' style fence around his £2.8million home has won permission to demolish his Victorian property and replace it ...

The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the next UNESCO World Heritage site. Millions of people converge on Xi ...

Peter Wall arrived in Canada as a penniless refugee in 1948. But he rose to the top of the Canadian development industry, building some of Vancouver’s landmark buildings, including One Wall ...

Alarmed by the building of the Berlin Wall, President Kennedy sent his Vice-President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and US General, Lucius D Clay to Berlin. The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War ...

Prominent Vancouver real estate developer Peter Wall, known for helping to shape the city's skyline, has died at 87, the Wall Financial Corporation confirmed in a statement. "Peter Wall's legacy ...