BERLIN (AP) — An escape tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall opened to the public on Thursday for the first time amid celebrations of the 30-year anniversary of the opening of communist East Germany’s ...

BERLIN — “It was a very touching moment. It brought back memories of a time when as a young man I had sworn to fight the wall.” Those were the words of Carl-Wolfgang Holzapfel, a 73-year-old retiree ...

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Nov 4, 2009 Nov 4, 2009Updated May 2, 2013 0 Twenty years after the Berlin Wall started coming down, the tunnels that had offered a Cold War escape route have become a popular tourist attraction. (2 ...