Berlin is filled with poignant memories of its communist days ... hawkers still sell “authentic” pieces of the Wall, East German flags, and military paraphernalia to gawking tourists.

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 ...

BERLINBERLIN — Hans Modrow, who served as East Germany’s last communist leader during a turbulent tenure that ended in the country’s first and only free election, has died. He was 95.