On May 1, 1974, I walked through Checkpoint Charlie across the Berlin wall into communist East Berlin to watch the May Day parade. People were lined up about seven deep on the side of the boulevard as ...

A former member of communist East Germany's secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided Berlin in 1974, prosecutors said Thursday.

Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the Cold War's most infamous border. Berlin's "anti-fascist ...