The world turned upside down when Katrin Geissler was born, and it turned upside down again when she gave birth to her son, Valentin.
Valentin Geissler has no memory of the wall.
Katrin Geissler remembers being 4 years old and on her way to ballet school when she first tried to peek through the wall.
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WEST BERLIN -- Tens of thousands of East Germans streamed through the Berlin Wall into West Berlin on Friday as the Communist regime pledged...
EAST BERLIN -- The East German government threw open its borders Thursday and announced that its citizens now may travel freely to West...
MOSCOW -- The Soviet Union, which built an empire of Communist satellite states in Eastern Europe with zeal and determination over four...
LEIPZIG, East Germany -- Security forces broke up a candle-lit protest march in East Berlin on Sunday as ordinary citizens here and in other...
LEIPZIG, East Germany -- East Germans expressed anger, shame and anguish Sunday over brutal police repression of popular, peaceful...
EAST BERLIN -- Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev told East Germans on Friday that there is "no need for panic," and he urged them to "be...
GIESSEN, West Germany -- Thousands of young East Germans arrived by special train in West German reception centers here and elsewhere Sunday...
BONN -- Thousands of jubilant East Germans began crossing into Austria and freedom early today shortly after the Hungarian government opened...
BONN -- Thousands of jubilant East Germans began crossing into Austria and freedom early today shortly after the Hungarian government opened...
WASHINGTON -- President Bush, who three months ago called for tearing down all physical barriers that divide Europe, now flatly predicts the...
MOSCOW -- President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, abandoning his policy of strict non-interference in the way local party leaders deal with...
WARSAW -- The Polish Communist Party's two longtime parliamentary allies bolted their old coalition Wednesday and agreed to back a...
NAGYMAROS, Hungary -- One cool spring day in 1980, Janos Vargha, a biologist-turned-journalist, visited a village on the Danube and was...
VILNIUS, Soviet Union -- It was just another weekend in the new Lithuania.
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- In a striking example of how communism is crumbling in Eastern Europe, President Bush went before an enthusiastic...
GDANSK, Poland -- With his back to a stark monument to workers slain in anti-government strikes, and his eyes gazing across a sea of hopeful...
WARSAW -- As President Bush launches a busy two-day schedule in Poland today, he will find a country, perhaps somewhat bewilderingly, locked...
WARSAW -- Poland's voters poured out by the millions Sunday and cast their ballots in what the official news agency PAP called "an...
PIASKI SZLACHECKIE, Poland -- The farmers began arriving in late afternoon, riding in a dozen at a time in tractor-drawn wooden wagons or...
WARSAW -- The independent trade union Solidarity came in from seven years in the political cold Wednesday, joining in a historic agreement...
BRUSSELS -- Europe's history is littered with noble ideas and broken dreams.
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