While it looked a little like the Italian supercar, the Melkus RS 1000 was powered by a far less impressive engine. Nevertheless, this East German gem was a fascinating lightweight mid-engine gem that ...

(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 ...

Seen through the calculating eyes of East Germany’s economic planners, the Berlin Wall has been a huge success. Though a moral outrage and a physical eyesore, it has stanched the drain of manpower ...

Throughout all the maneuvers over Berlin, one thing has not changed: Walter Ulbricht’s nasty little regime in East Germany is in serious trouble. Last week Ulbricht wasadmitting it. The end of 1961 ...

Oscar Niemeyer, Félix Candela, Álvaro Siza: These are just a few names people often associate with sculptural, hyperbolic reinforced concrete architecture. But what about Ulrich Müther? Müther ...

Jenny Erpenbeck became a writer when her childhood and her country, the German Democratic Republic, disappeared, swallowed by the materialist West. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger first traveled to ...