Of course, at least until the late 1970s, it was easier for a Western tourist to cross into East Germany than for East German citizens to emigrate to the West. The fact is that an adventurous and ...

According to ‘Facts about Germany,’ 2010 historical publication of the German government, the post-war division was made official in 1949 with the creation of a democratic constitutional state in the ...

The inner German border separated East and West Germany from 1949 until the two sides reunited in 1990. ... During the German Democratic Republic (former East Germany), ...

Emergency powers, the border wall and lessons from Germany by Georg Vanberg, opinion contributor - 02/20/19 3:30 PM ET ...

Research by Germany's Checkpoint Charlie museum, which is still identifying "border-related" deaths, found that 483 people died or were killed at the heavily-guarded wall, which separated the ...