Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of industry in the former East Germany, many women have left the region ...

Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom ...

I keep thinking of that iconic 1991 film which so brilliantly portrayed an East German family in the first throes of freedom ...

The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1990, which installed a rigid communist state known ...

Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are ...

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 ...

How East Germany's 'traffic light man' became a beloved icon As Germany readies to mark 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell, one symbol of the former communist East has become an icon of reunification ...

Ikea is not alone in the matter, as East Germany was a hotspot for cheap labor under the communist regime, which many ...

Germany’s ascendant far-right AfD party has led the pushback against antisemitism based on being anti-Israel. They'd ...

Tupolev Tu-134: Created via an official directive from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, impressed by the quiet cabin of the ...

He almost disappeared along with East Germany in the years after the Wall fell on November 9, 1989, when many other symbols of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) were swept away. Its polluting ...

Show more Show less East Germany's 'Ampelmann' or pedestrian 'traffic light man' is now instantly recognisable thanks to his chunky outline and wide-brimmed hat CEO of Berlin brand 'Ampelmann ...