Alongside bustling, burgeoning West Germany (pop. 52 million), the Soviet-rigged German Democratic Republic, with its grey, ruin-strewn cities and 17½ million sullen, shabby subjects, looks a sorry ...

Depopulated towns in Germany’s ex-communist east have come up with a novel scheme to bring back life: offering people several weeks of super-cheap housing to give would-be residents a taste of the ...

THE LATE summer sun is beating down on a merry crowd assembled in Neustadt an der Orla, a small town in the east German state of Thuringia. As children slurp ice cream and Thuringian Bratwürste warm ...

Once a symbol of economic disparity in a reunified Germany, East Germany is now rewriting its legacy. A compelling visualisation from The World in Maps, grounded in Eurostat’s regional GDP data, ...

Even after almost 35 years when the so-called German Reunification which was, in reality, a bit more like an Anschluss wherein West-Germany simply took over East-Germany occurred, a divided Germany ...

AS KHRUSHCHEV well knows, conditions within his East German satellite have been steadily worsening and are now at an all-time low in its checkered twelve-year history. There is a growing shortage of ...

“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.

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 man stands in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin before the start of the celebrations for the 2018 Day of German Unity; he is holding balloons with the event’s slogan — “only with you” — ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.