Ulbricht even changed the name of East Germany’s Secretariat for All-German Affairs to the Secretariat of West German Affairs, to show that the two Germanys no longer have anything in common.

Gone was East Germany’s boast that it could overtake West Germany in consumer-goods output this year. Goals were being set lower. The target of the East German economic growth rate for 1961 has ...

For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from fleeing. Independent producers Carl… On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

This also applies to East Germany, even if here exports to the US play a smaller role than for the West German economy. In 2024, gross domestic product (GDP) in East Germany fell by 0.1% ...

The West German economic boom not only garnered international admiration but also spurred significant migration from East Germany, ultimately forcing the Soviets to take extreme steps—most ...