In the spooky Stasi HQ in Leipzig, now a rather sinister museum, Tobias Hollitzer, the museum’s director, is telling me about ...

The story of Andreas Weidhaas' sex shop in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) or East Germany reveals a lot about ...

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 ...

(“The East Does ... You see German retirees searching the trash cans for empty bottles, and yet these others come into the country and get everything. That doesn’t seem right to me.” ...

Police are treating the collapse as an accident, because there are no signs of foul play, according to German news agency dpa. The bridge dates back to East Germany's formerly communist era ...

Attractions are spread out along the old political boundaries of east and west Berlin ... Berlin Mitte contains some of the most famous German landmarks; it was a pivotal locale for several ...

On this day in 1979, eight people from two families escaped from East Germany by crossing the border into West Germany at night in a homemade hot air ballon. The unique feat was the result of ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s government said Wednesday that the country’s economy, Europe’s biggest, is on track to shrink for a ...

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. For the first time since the Nazi era, a far-right party made a significant ...

The German government is also under pressure to show it is addressing the issue amid the rise of far-right, anti-Islam and anti-immigrant nationalist political parties, particularly in the east.

They have had the same effect on me, bringing me back to a conversation ... Reunification of the divided country brought an end to the charade East Germany had perpetuated, in which leaders ...

But polls show the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party leading there. If the far right wins again in the East, as it did in Thuringia earlier this month, it would amount to another ...