In true Cold War fashion, the massive fire at the Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant in Lubmin were hidden but the leadership of the East German communist party. When I visited the site, which was ...

A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...

One of the most daring escapes of the Cold War involved nothing but shovels ... collapsing walls and surveillance by the Stasi, the East German ministry of state security. In the end, the escape ...

The legacy of the Cold War continues to shape contemporary politics. Following East Germany’s lead, activists in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria ousted communist leaders and ...

On 13 August 1961, the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete ...

Over the second half of the 20th century, East and West Germany reflected the Cold War ideologies of Russia and the US. West Germany was a capitalist democracy with a prosperous economy ...

During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon was ... Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. They also made a similar commitment to defend each other.

Planning to cross the Inner German Border during the Cold War in a gigantic hot-air balloon ... many normal people tried to escape East Germany, but were hindered by the Berlin Wall.