approaching the East German border. There had been a three-day general strike in Communist Poland and I was not able to secure a visa to pass through East Germany to cross into West Berlin.

They were crossing the border from Hungary, where the regime had torn gaping holes in the Iron Curtain that separated East from West. Meanwhile at home in East Germany, for those protesters who ...

BERLIN, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Germany has ... on migration and cross-border crime after a surge of arrivals, especially from people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East. The controls primarily ...

BERLIN — Germany's government ordered temporary controls at all land borders Monday ... large numbers of refugees from the Middle East over the past decade, but now a political backlash is ...