Many economists and business representatives are now concerned that Germany's right-wing shift in the east could negatively ...

Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom ...

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East German culture disappeared practically overnight, cast aside for the newly ...

Her memoir shows that many of the decisions that now seem controversial were products of their moment. So is Angela Merkel ...

As Germany readies to mark 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell, one symbol of the former communist East has become an icon of ...

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of industry in the former East Germany, many women have left the region ...

The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1990, which installed a rigid communist state known as the German Democratic Republic, or GDR. Tens of thousands of its ...

This is how the former communist East Germany was able to collect urgently needed foreign currency from capitalist countries abroad. The GDR's system of forced prison labor existed for several ...

Although no one could have predicted the extraordinary events that rocked East Germany in the second half of 1989, the Bush administration was slow to react when they occured. During the first ...

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War.

Germany's three-way coalition government pledged when it took office in 2021 to establish a hardship fund for victims of crimes committed under the East German government before German unification ...

A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...