Even after almost 35 years when the so-called German Reunification which was, in reality, a bit more like an Anschluss wherein West-Germany simply took over East-Germany occurred, a divided Germany ...

Germany’s historical Drang nach Osten— push toward the East —has more often than not involved expansion and conquest at its neighbors’ expense. Now West Germany is looking eastward again — but this ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

Near the East German village of Wandlitz, nine miles to the east of Berlin, is a most unusual settlement. It is a walled-in compound of semi-forested land and wide lawns, within which sit some 20 ...

German cinema, especially as it relates to the way in which Germans in the former communist East Germany looked upon the west, is the focus of a planned film series culminating in a lecture by Michael ...

Germany's far-right party is dominating polls in the country's eastern region less than two weeks before the federal elections on Feb. 23 — and economic concerns have played a part in its popularity.

(Reuters) - Following is timeline of East Germany which united with the West just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. May 8, 1945 - Nazi Germany capitulates, country divided ...

EISENHÜTTENSTADT, Germany — Back behind the Iron Curtain, when this town 75 miles southeast of Berlin was called Stalinstadt, it was meant to be a blueprint for utopian life in Communist East Germany ...

Hoyer has several important advantages that Steinbeck and Capa lacked. East Germany’s fearsome internal security apparatus is long gone, which means her surviving subjects are free to speak openly ...