The unsolved murder of a West German border guard might have been communist revenge
In 1998, German police officers found the body of a taxi cab operator and father of five named Hans Pluchke in the town of Wiesenfeld. He had been shot through…
A US troop helped an East German escape the Iron Curtain
There were only a few places around the world more tense than in the Cold War showdown between East and West that occurred every day in divided Berlin. In the West, American and NATO guards stared down the barrels of the Soviet-backed East German bo…