When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of ...

Had the Cold War turned hot, there would have been no escape for the U.S. garrison in West Berlin. Marooned in a city more than 100 miles inside Communist East ...

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War. By 1948 ... It provoked genuine fears of war in the West. And instead of preventing the establishment of an independent ...

One of the most daring escapes of the Cold War involved nothing but shovels ... Eventually, three million Germans fled to the West, mainly through Berlin. On August 12, 1961, East Germany strung ...

During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon was ... In response, Stalin blocked all land borders into West Berlin. This stopped food, medicine and supplies being transported into western ...

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in ... killed at the East German border during the Cold War. Most were civilians trying to flee to the West from communist East Germany. The 327 includes 262 ...

Authorities in Germany's capital Berlin have banned local performers from wearing US army uniforms at Checkpoint Charlie, the iconic Cold War crossing between the east and west of the city.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift this documentary looks back on an uneasy time in world history This first battle of the cold war ... post World War II control of West Berlin ...

Attractions are spread out along the old political boundaries of east and west Berlin ... perhaps the most commercial evidence of Berlin's post-Cold War development. Here you'll find the Sony ...