Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a population slump in the east lays bare the existing divisions ...

The end of World War II gave way to a fractured Germany, with one half falling under Allied control, while the other became ...

Rolling into Germany with salvage crews and empty freight cars, the Soviet conquerors of 1945 carted off everything of value. To Mother Russia went East Germany’s ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago, on November 9, with a sense of momentous events palpable in Berlin’s famous air, East Germans began streaming through the Berlin Wall, two-stroke East German cars putt-putted past ...

Thousands of athletes in former East Germany were subjected to state-sponsored doping — and many still suffer lasting health ...

On 7th October 1989, the German Democratic Republic celebrated its 40th anniversary. The highlight was the military parade, and East Germany had a formidable military to show off. One year later, the ...

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 ...

Werner Franke, a German doctor who helped expose East Germany’s expansive state-sponsored doping program, has died. Franke died of an intracerebral hemorrhage on Nov. 14 in Heidelberg. He was 82 years ...

“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.

More of the same” just won’t do, Andy Burnham has proclaimed. The likely next prime minister has laid out his vision for the UK: The “biggest rebalancing of power our country has ever seen” coupled ...