The half-naked protester was filmed defacing remnants of the Berlin Wall kept ... The AfD secured most of its support in the former East Germany, which between 1949 and 1990 was a communist ...

Having been in Berlin on that euphoric occasion in November 1989 when the Wall came down, I went on to extensively tour the soon-to-be-abolished East Germany during the following Easter holiday.

The occasion was the 20th anniversary of the founding of East Germany’s Communist state. What was perhaps most striking about the celebrations was not the relatively modest military show but the ...

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 ...

in the remnants of that state ... creating expectations that it would one day Her book paints a picture of East Germany as a bundle of inherent flaws and contradictions that it was ultimately ...

It is often dismissed as the remnant of an outdated ideology and ... including David Alfaro Siqueiros. He moved to East Germany in 1958. His first mural commission was in Halle-Neustadt.

If you grew up in East Germany, a country whose national anthem began, “Resurrected from the ruins, faces toward the future turned,” you might find a landscape covered in shards to be almost ...