Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

Former chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, has called German reunification "a great stroke of luck," despite the challenges, in an interview as the nation celebrates 35 years since ...

The ruling coalition in Germany's eastern state of Brandenburg lost its majority on Tuesday, sparking calls from the far-right AfD for new elections. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ...

A cheap way to manage the housing shortage in former GDR cities, the prefab concrete buildings were long derided for their monotony. Their cultural legacy is now being explored anew.Residential tower ...

Germany's far-right party is dominating polls in the country's eastern region less than two weeks before the federal elections on Feb. 23 — and economic concerns have played a part in its popularity.

The character of the DDR. Of course, when you switch the criteria of power and privilege from economic entrepreneurship to political rectitude, you are bound to rely on lies, on corruption and ...

For the first time since the 1948 Soviet blockade, the Communists this week shut off German traffic on the Autobahn linking West Berlin and West Germany. Armed Red police forbade anyone to leave East ...