FILE - A view taken from a Cub artillery observation plane on July 10, 1945, shows vast areas of destruction in Berlin, after repeated Anglo-American air raids on the German capital. Seen on the left, ...

Participants walk to the main rally of the "Never again war" alliance. Thousands of protesters heeded a call from the "Never Again War" initiative to march through central Berlin on German Unity Day.

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

BERLIN — At a hummus restaurant in Berlin’s leafy neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg, war has come knocking many times over the last two years. Recently, it came with the threat of closure. Jalil Dabit, ...

Forty years ago this week, a wall rose dividing East and West Berlin. East Germany said at the time the Berlin Wall it was erecting would protect the divided city from “fascist” forces in the West.

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Reporting from BERLIN — Wildfires burning south of Berlin have forced the evacuation of three villages as the flames continue to detonate grenades and other rusting munitions left behind from World ...

For decades, Checkpoint Charlie stood as one of the most famous symbols of Berlin’s division, one of only two crossings open to foreigners to pass between East and West. After the Berlin Wall came ...

The first and only spy I ever met introduced himself as Richard – my flight mate on a trans-Atlantic in 2010. Richard spoke excellent German, although with a strong old East-German accent. Being ...

BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival ...