Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

A crash with injuries has been reported on East Berlin Road in East Berlin, Adams County. The severity of injuries has not been confirmed. Sharing brings us closer together. If this story happened ...

During a period of public comment, PennDOT has released the possible plans for improving multiple intersections along East Berlin Road in Reading Township. The plans, which focus separately on the ...

Peter Keup can still remember how it felt to hold deutsche marks in his hand. “It was special to even touch this money,” he recalls. “It felt solid. The East German mark was thinner, flimsier.” As a ...

Erika Schallert fled East Berlin on August 15, 1961, with nothing but the clothes she was wearing and her half-finished wedding dress, determined that nothing was going to stop her getting married — ...

In early August 1961, a letter arrived at the Berlin Zoo’s administration office. A visitor’s annual pass had been taken away because she’d fed animals without permission. Not so very long before, ...

Most artists (including Christian Awe) live in the East, where studio space, by the standards of other European capitals, is still inexpensive. Scott S. Warren Most artists (including Ping Qiu) live ...

Kani Alavi, a young Iranian artist living in Germany, witnessed history as the Berlin Wall was falling, and crowds rushed to set foot on free soil. From his fourth-floor apartment next to Berlin’s ...