West Germany was a capitalist democracy with a prosperous economy, while East Germany was a communist country with a very poor economy. The border between East and West Germany shut in 1952 ...
They’re the strongest party in east Germany.” When the Wall came down, reunification followed soon after. Under the leadership of West Germany’s Christian Democrat chancellor Helmut Kohl ...
When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, ...
"Women in Divided Germany" is the title of an exhibition 35 years after reunification. It sheds light on the realities of ...
A chilling memory has haunted me for weeks. Once, in late winter 1972, a time when the Cold War was precarious, I was on the night train from Poznan, Poland, to Berlin, approaching the East German ...
"Women in Divided Germany" is the title of an exhibition 35 years after reunification. It sheds light on the realities of life for women in former East and West Germany. Clara Marz believes there ...
Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's CDU/CSU parliamentary bloc, is set to lead the next government after his party came first ...
A relevant study of the East German Stasi, 'The Spies Among Us' follows a former victim facing those who ran the surveillance ...
The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis. Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne ...
His government has also introduced land border checks ... Cottbus because of perceived economic inequalities between east and west Germany following reunification, which has left popular anger.
An astounding map that has emerged from Germany’s general election has shown just how divided the nation at the heart of ...