Divided down its center by the Berlin Wall, Heidelberger Strasse became known as the "Street of Tears" -- and the site of a remarkable number of early tunnels, writes Greg Mitchell in The Tunnels.

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 — ...

BERLIN – An escape tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall opened to the public this month for the first time amid celebrations of the 30-year anniversary of the opening of communist East Germany’s border.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story will begin on August 13, 1961, when East Germany closed its borders to West Berlin. A group of students teamed with a ...

BERLIN – When the East German government built the Berlin Wall in 1961 to prevent its citizens from leaving, the regime failed to account for the ingenuity and creativity of those willing to risk ...