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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The German chancellor arrived on Friday night for his first visit since March 2022 with tensions in the Middle East high on the agenda alongside migration and other bilateral issues. But Scholz ...

It will be paid to a new German government fund aiming to compensate victims of the former East German dictatorship. The compensation from IKEA will heap pressure on other western companies ...