From 1961 to 1989, desperate East Germans tried everything to break through the Berlin Wall. Some made it. Many didn’t. Garth Brooks found Nashville 'gutted' after returning to country music ...

In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that the US president, John F Kennedy, would not try to stop him.

East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their ...

The Berlin Wall Memorial is a solemn site that offers ... "death strip," a no-man's land that was heavily guarded to prevent ...