BERLINBERLIN — East Germany’s secret police kept extensive records on Chancellor Olaf Scholz when he was a senior member of the West German Social Democratic Party’s youth wing in the 1970s and 80s, ...

When my husband and I drove across East Germany (the German Democratic Republic/GDR) in 1970 on our way to West Berlin, I could never have imagined someday spending a semester in the East that would ...

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.

(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 ...

When East Germany was split off from the West in the aftermath of World War II, it had 18 million people. In the 15 years since then, 3,400,000 East Germans have fled to the West, leaving behind them ...

In 1980s East Germany, there was a group of independent fashion designers, photographers, models and stylists who refused to play along with the socialist regime’s excessive egalitarianism. They ...

Many East Germans are more sympathetic toward Moscow than their western compatriots, reflecting decades of Soviet ties and disillusionment since reunification.

Beyond the Wall. By Katja Hoyer. Allen Lane; 496 pages; £25. To be published in America by Basic Books in September; $35 In the eyes of its critics, the communist-run part of Germany was never a ...

No major combat incidents occurred in the GDR, but the S-200 system’s presence deterred potential aggressors, aligning with Warsaw Pact exercises and Soviet oversight. East Germany was at the ...

An exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum explores the Jewish experience in the authoritarian, and officially atheist, communist state throughout the Cold War era. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Berlin ...