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.

Atlas,” Natalie Koch wrote about Western movies — but not the American ones. Germany has a significant cinematic tradition of stories set in the Old West.

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 ...

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% ...

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 ...