Nurse's WW1 album with memories from the trenches smashes estimates at auction
An album containing the memories of soldiers from the First World War has sold for thousands at auction. The scrapbook, found ...
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East Front News #20: Aegis Ashore Opened in Poland, Deliveries and Contracts of Polish Artillery, Snap Elections in Germany
East Front News is a weekly newsletter summarizing the past week’s most important events concerning security and the ...
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A bumpy ride down East Germany’s memory lane
With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East German culture disappeared practically overnight, cast aside for the newly ...
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Families of Nazi SS hostages held as bargaining chips in WWII say lessons from the war still resonate
German army soldiers not wanting to end up as criminals of war wrested the political prisoners from the SS and took them to ...
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Germany’s Project for Europe Is in Tatters
For decades, German governments have pursued the project of a free-market European empire. Today the war in Ukraine and US ...
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The Secret Site Where East Germany's Stasi Perfected The Berlin Wall
Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom ...
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In East Germany, nostalgia for the past is complicated
Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, nostalgia for the old days and ways of socialist East Germany is stronger than ever. Germans even have a name for the phenomenon: “Ostalgie.” From ...