His portrait and an image of a Soviet soldier were later chosen to hang at Checkpoint Charlie to commemorate the border between the East and West.

News / Clark County News East Berlin, 1968 Memories of a wall that fell Vancouver man remembers brush with Soviet soldiers during surreal visit into Communist zone ...

Imagine it's 1966, and you're living in East Berlin, a city divided by the infamous Berlin Wall. The East German government, desperate to prevent citizens from fleeing to the West, has fortified every ...

The Berlin Wall, which came down 25 years ago, split the great German city, separating friends and families.

Authorities in Berlin have banned a group of actors from wearing U.S. Army uniforms at Checkpoint Charlie, the famous Cold War-era crossing that divided the city and was heavily guarded by Soviet ...

Bob Charest, who twice served with Detachment A in Berlin, said the soldiers were constantly studying the enemy, using intelligence, aerial photographs and forays into East Berlin.

Authorities in Germany's capital Berlin have banned local performers from wearing US army uniforms at Checkpoint Charlie, the iconic Cold War crossing between the east and west of the city.

Thirty-five years after the Berlin Wall was toppled, 2024 images contrasted with archival photos capture the scars that remain from the cold war's most infamous border.