BBC7 年
East German border claimed 327 lives, says Berlin study
The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War. Most were ...
BBC5 年
'Cut the Iron Curtain': Germany's 1989 freedom picnic
One afternoon in 1989, 600 East Germans surged through the open ... Hungary on Monday and expressed thanks for the Hungarian border guards' restraint, which - by allowing people to cross ...