The rightist AfD is now polling as the country’s most popular party.

Hoyer interweaves the experiences of ordinary East German citizens to illustrate what daily life was like under communist ...

Here in Berlin, we know this all too well. Its Stalinist predecessors helped organise the reintroduction of capitalism in the German Democratic Republic [East Germany] and the liquidation of ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz has sealed a deal to form a new government that aims to spur economic growth, ramp up ...

it was formally divided into two separate states known as the German Democratic Republic (commonly known as East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (known as West Germany). Berlin ...

The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic nor a republic; it was an Orwellian horror show, where the Iron Curtain found literal expression in the form of ...

Gysi grew up in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a communist dictatorship. The trained lawyer, and son of former GDR Culture Minister Klaus Gysi, found his way into politics during the ...

Later on that year, the communist sector became a new country, the German Democratic Republic, more commonly known as East Germany. The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of ...

Ms Merkel's memoir follows her climb from childhood in the German Democratic Republic and memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to becoming Chancellor in 2005. She also shares ...

Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation’s strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the ...

This is the first of four reports on the crises that now beset Germany — what they are, the history that produced them, and ...