Chemnitz, my second port of call, is the city East Germany’s leaders decided in 1953 to re-christen Karl-Marx-Stadt – only for that change to be reversed in 1990 when it went back to being ...

At the height of the Cold War, Wünsdorf in East Germany was home to a vast Soviet military complex. Closed 25 years ago, the now-abandoned “Forbidden City” is a time capsule of recent history.

"Never have I seen people who feel so alone, lost and abandoned. They have given up hope." So reported a West German traveler after a visit to relatives in the East German city of Dresden, ...

A vast mosaic depicting Karl Marx and celebrating the founding of East Germany and the “unity of the working class” was officially handed over to the city of Halle by the private foundation ...

Kunakhovich’s book presents a richly detailed chronicle of the relations between political and cultural actors in the East German city of Leipzig and the Polish city of Krakow during the Cold War. ...

Reporting from Dresden, Germany — Ingolf Koecher and his wife, Bettina, have marched in 120 anti-Islam rallies in the former East German city of Dresden during the last four years. The retired ...

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 West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from ...

Kerstin Ade stands next to her camper during a semiannual trip for former East Germany residents in Leipzig, Germany. (Kerstin Sopke/AP) Soup and sausages might not seem like the usual stuff of ...

An exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum explores the Jewish experience in the authoritarian, and officially atheist, communist state throughout the Cold War era. By Nina Siegal Reporting from ...

I explored east Germany’s hip cities and Cold War relics – in the ultimate Communist car On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I took a Trabi through the heartlands of the former GDR ...