Crossing the inner German border remained possible throughout the Cold War; it was never entirely sealed in the fashion of the border between the two Koreas, though there were severe restrictions on the movement of East German citizens. The post-war agreements on the governance of Berlin specified that the Western Allies were to have access to the city via …

Flashpoint of the Cold War. There’s a little town in central Germany called Melpers, tucked into a picture postcard valley in Thuringia. About a hundred people live there today. A fine road connects Melpers with the closest town in Bavaria—Oberfladungen—which is a lovely spot in its own right. It’s a three-minute drive between the towns, or if you prefer to walk, about 30 minutes.

Just like the Rodachtal, Mödlareuth is a small German village that was divided by the front line of Cold War Europe.

A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War. Most were civilians trying to flee to the West from communist East Germany.

Germany and the Cold War. For more than four decades, divided Germany was the epicenter of the Cold War. The border severing East and West embodied the …

It ran from the Baltic Sea, close to Lübeck, in the north to where the northern Bavarian border meets the Czech Republic in the east, carving off the …

As of 1956, top-ranking German military and political leaders were able to establish the concept that collective defence would also always include defence of Germany. Zoom The Bundeswehr conducts the "Panthersprung" exercise in North Hesse, not far from the border to East Germany, in 1967, shown here with M48 battle tanks and Sikorsky H-34 G helicopters

This map attempts to show all border changes during the Cold War period and beyond. The changing boundaries of the international system are represented with a "lifetime" for each country, i.e. a start and end year.

Since the fall of the Berlin Walland the reunification of Germany in 1989, sites associated with the 40-year-long Cold Warand the division of the country into West and East Germany have become relics. In mostplaces, there is no trace of the old border between East and West, once the scene ofelaborate fences, anti-tank ditches, machinegun nests, ...