One difference between East and West requires a birds-eye perspective and a clear night sky: Seen from above, street lights in the former East Berlin appear slightly more orange while those in the ...

Now East and West are virtually indistinguishable, though cross a street in Berlin and you’ll see a quaint echo of Communist yesterday: the now cherished little green and red men called ...

TRAMS TO THE EAST. Berlin’s complex public transportation system — composed of buses, subway trains, commuter railways and trams — was strictly divided between East and West until reunification.

West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall early Nov. 11, 1989, as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall between East and West Berlin.

Wall divided East and West Germany for 28 years. West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall, Nov. 11, 1989, as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall in order ...

With Khrushchev`s blessing, East German leader Erich Honecker started construction of a 27.9-mile wall across the city, along with 74.5 miles of wall separating West Berlin from the rest of East ...

City planners rushed to erase divisions between East and West Berlin after the wall came down in 1989. But the fate of communist-era buildings can still provoke friction a quarter-century later.

The view is often heard in the West that East Berlin youths today follow red flags as readily as they once followed brown flags during Hitler’s time. Nothing is more misleading than this ...

This Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019 photo, shows a manhole cover surviving from communist times in Berlin, when Volkseigene Betriebe, or Publicly Owned Enterprises, manufactured manhole covers for East ...