As the first incarnation of the Berlin Wall went up, the students and their families scrambled to make quick decisions.

On the way back from their class trip, the students already have the feeling that their lives will never be the same again.

Tough decisions had to be made as the future became more and more uncertain. Even the annual class trip required students living in the East to travel separately.

Outside of the classroom, the students who travelled to the West for school were confronted with important life decisions and their consequences.

Smuggling items to relatives who had left Berlin was a difficult mission. At the same time, it often seemed difficult to completely comprehend how high the stakes would be.

As rumors began that the border was to be closed, the students began to wonder how their studies and lives would progress.

The students at the Kepler School can spend their evenings out in West Berlin as well, but are constantly dealing with the boundaries.

Even though adolescents who were denied the right to attend high school in East Berlin could find ways to continue their education in the West, neither the commute nor the social dynamics were easy.

Die Klasse – Berlin '61 is a docudrama about a class of students who commuted from East Berlin to the West on a daily basis to attend school, and the consequences of the construction of the Berlin Wall. The story is told through interviews as well as reenacted scenes.

This behind the scenes report from Frankfurt Airport shows how incoming and outgoing airplanes are managed on the tarmac. With fifteen thousand transportation and pushback assignments per month, this is no small task!

Do you consider yourself a brave person? Well imagine putting a scarf over your eyes and playing soccer blind! For the members of the German Blind National Soccer League, this is part of their daily life. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

For most of them, it is the last stop before getting their own homes in Germany. 700 refugees from 20 countries currently live in the Marienfelde Transitional Residence in Berlin. What's special: Fifty years ago, refugees lived here too! Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

Reporters from the German magazine Auto Bild are visiting the annual International Auto Show in Frankfurt. Here, they show us which cars were the tops and the flops - and tell us why. Schaut mal rein!

For dog lovers: with the coming of the European Union, the once dominant breed, the German shepherd, is falling out of favor as a K9 service animal. Höchst interessant!

Florian and Natali join divers Joop and Felicia Stahlenburg in making underwater willow tipis for the endangered cuttlefish to spawn in.