For weeks the refugee flow had been increasing. Suddenly, over the Easter weekend, it became a torrent. In four days, more than 4,200 East Germans, carrying their meager belongings in sacks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tourists at the border fence of Mödlareuth, a village in eastern Germany known as "Little Berlin." Andreas Drouve/dpa Two families ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sex shop in eastern Germany. Many are struggling amid the growth of business online. Bodo Schackow/dpa The story of Andreas ...

Eastern Germany risks falling behind, economists warn, while neighbours such as Poland are booming. What sets them apart, and what does the East need to turn things around? View on euronews ...

In 1948, John Steinbeck and photographer Robert Capa embarked on a carefully choreographed tour of the Soviet Union. The resulting book, A Russian Journal, was meant to humanize the Soviet people to ...

From a reviewing stand on East Berlin’s Marx-Engels Platz, Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht waved a bouquet of red roses as goose-stepping troops paraded past. Alongside “Spitzbart,” as Ulbricht’s ...

A civil society report by the organization Claim documented over 3,000 anti-Muslim incidents in Germany last year. The report links the surge to geopolitical events and warns of growing normalization ...

With the Enhanced Games recently concluded, it revealing nothing of what a true athlete can achieve, we visit the vault to explore the story of East Germany’s Kristin Otto, whose success arrived under ...

“We don’t have that!” was once a typical reply in shops throughout East Germany. Today, there are only recordings of that classical line to be experienced at the newly reopened GDR Museum in Berlin.

On Nov. 9, 1989, in East Germany, Holger Wenschuh already had cause to celebrate. He was nearing the end of his post-grad chemistry studies at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, and it was his ...

Though spared from actual warfare, the tank’s role in deterrence and crisis response was crucial, influencing global military dynamics and leaving an indelible mark on armored history. During the Cold ...

KHRUSHCHEV’S visits to Berlin have become the most significant single feature of the East German year. In 1957 the Soviet Premier bestowed his blessing before the Volkskammer on the plan to form a ...