A chilling memory has haunted me for weeks. Once, in late winter 1972, a time when the Cold War was precarious, I was on the night train from Poznan, Poland, to Berlin, approaching the East German ...

Editor’s note: Story was originally published on Nov. 9. 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 9, 1989, communist East Germany threw open its ...

At the border between Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt was the most secret location of the former East Germany during the time of the German division. A powerful bunker complex that was intended to serve as a ...

"Suddenly they opened the gate!" recalled Berliner Andreas Falge, one of the first to cross the East German border into the West on November 9, 1989. A smile on his face, the 61-year-old is back on ...