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 — ...

This is not Ralph Kabisch. But this is the tunnel he helped build. Courtesy of Ralph Kabisch Roman Mars’ terrific design podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his ...

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, ...