I keep thinking of that iconic 1991 film which so brilliantly portrayed an East German family in the first throes of freedom ...

Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are ...

East Germany's "Ampelmann" or pedestrian "traffic light man" is now instantly recognisable thanks to his chunky outline and wide-brimmed hat. He almost disappeared along with East Germany in the ...

Thousands of people were subjected to forced labor for Western companies while imprisoned in the former communist East Germany under a system that operated almost right up to reunification in 1990.

E ARLY IN THE morning of November 6th, as Europe digested the result of America’s presidential election, three senior figures ...

Ikea first acknowledged in 2012, after an independent investigation, that some of its suppliers in East Germany had employed political prisoners to produce goods for the company in the late 1970s ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday demanded a calm debate from Germany's squabbling factions on setting the date for a snap ...

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Image Credit: AFP Berlin: As Germany readies to mark 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell, one symbol of the former communist East has become an icon of reunification, seen by millions every time ...

Ampelmann became a rare symbol from the GDR to be adopted in parts of the West. As Germany readies to mark 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell, one symbol of the former communist East has become ...