An album containing the memories of soldiers from the First World War has sold for thousands at auction. The scrapbook, found ...

See 1,000 square metres of exhibition space filled with a selection of militaria ... the building hosts East Germany's "Great Patriotic War" museum. May 19th 1995, on the 50th anniversary of the end ...

Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom ...

The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1990, which installed a rigid communist state known ...

East Germany’s political collapse was mirrored in football, but a focus on youth brings hope for the future. https://p.dw.com/p/4miJb Magdeburg were once club with ...

As Germany celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago on Nov. 9 1989, women look back at how different their lives ...

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East German culture disappeared practically overnight, cast aside for the newly ...

East Germans fleeing communism were once housed there. Now a centre in the German capital provides refuge to people who have escaped war and misery from Afghanistan to Africa.

Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are ...

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 ...

Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are ...

The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1990, which installed a rigid communist state known as the German Democratic Republic, or GDR. Tens of thousands of its ...