Hans Conrad Schumann, a former East German soldier immortalized in a photograph as he leaped across a barbed-wire fence to freedom in West Berlin, hanged himself Saturday. He was 56.

Every Soldier from First Army Division East received an award. After the ceremony, the Soldiers were treated to a bit of German culture, enjoying German food and music from a German band.

The East German armed forces, once considered the pride of Eastern European contingents allied with the Soviet Union in the Warsaw Pact, are headed for dissolution. Almost half of the 98,000 East G… ...

The new exhibition features stills from videos that German-American artist Stefan Roloff shot of the Berlin Wall from the west in 1984 — including East German soldiers peering through binoculars ...

Berlin - It was exactly 30 years when this young American Soldier first traveled by a blacked-out sleeper train through Soviet-occupied East Germany to the surrounded former capital of Germany. In ...

Leibing’s photo instantly made Schumann famous, immortalizing him as the first East German soldier to desert over the wall. Over 2,000 more would follow his example in the coming decades.

As a child, CNN's Fred Pleitgen lived in East Berlin under the watchful eye of the Stasi. His father Fritz, a journalist at a West German TV network, says the Stasi broke into the family flat ...

Students stand outside in the courtyard at Jones College Prep on Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, to listen to speakers discuss the recent mishandling of a student who wore a German soldier-style uniform in ...