When East Germany was split off from the West in the aftermath of World War II, it had 18 million people. In the 15 years since then, 3,400,000 East Germans have fled to the West, leaving behind ...

The geographical division through the middle of Germany may have vanished ... the geographical division parting East and West until 1990 may have vanished from world maps — but not so much ...

Germany’s far-right Alternative fur Deutschland party (AfD) party saw particular support in the former East Germany, as high as 46.7 per cent in some areas. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU ...

Alongside bustling, burgeoning West Germany (pop ... maintain Soviet military dominance over the whole East European satellite world, this hapless, cheerless rump of a country has such invaluable ...

A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...

Instead, Germany’s first democratic society only emerged for a short time – between the years 1919 and 1933. In other words, East-Germans who were living under a Stalinist regime between 1945 ...

A 2-0 win over Australia in the East Germany’s first ever game at a World Cup finals was followed four days later by a 1-1 draw with Chile in their second. A somewhat unexpected scoreless draw ...