In the world of micronations, there are quirky and unusual conflicts that continue to intrigue both historians and ...

Dull Paradise. Because of Ulbricht’s efforts, East Germany today is a country that looks different, thinks different and even smells different from West Germany. Hanns Eisler’s anthem speaks o ...

Closely watched elections in the former East Germany are likely to reveal a still-divided country and yield a worrying challenge to Berlin. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger traveled for three ...

This is not the case across the country, however ... following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the economy of East Germany was characterized by lower incomes, higher unemployment and weaker growth ...

East Germany's leadership had already sealed off the country's main border with West Germany, which snaked from the Baltic Sea to Czechoslovakia, in 1952. The 96-mile-long wall was built by the ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany won a state election for the first time Sunday in the country's east, and was set to finish at least a very close second to mainstream conservatives in a ...

Emma's family lives in what used to be East Germany, a separate, communist country de facto controlled by the former Soviet Union. Until the reunification of Germany after the fall of the Berlin ...

“It harms our country. We’re not Nazis ... The burden of the past is everywhere in East Germany, but doubled. First there were the Nazis, which East Germany officially labeled a West ...