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 ...

Back in 1959, as a short service commissioned officer, I was based at Celle, not far from the Harz Mountains and the border with the German Democratic Republic. We had the idea that if we could ...

Last year, three conditions were set forth which we were required to meet if the signatory powers of the Warsaw Pact were to normalize their relations with the Federal Republic of Germany: (1) Bonn ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and his CDU won the German election — yet his personal popularity is low and getting ...

The daughter of a California man, Jamshid "Jimmy" Sharmahd, who was executed and mutilated by Iran, wants the U.S. to break off nuclear talks with the clerical regime.

Berlin (VNA) – Veteran German journalist and historian Gerhard Feldbauer, in an interview with the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)'s resident correspondents in Berlin on the occasion of the 50th ...

The first of these congresses took place in December 1947 and was designed to be a cross-party assembly representing the entire people of post-war Germany. In March 1948 ... were held in the Palace of ...

what used to be the former German Democratic Republic, the CDU has decisively lost the last federal elections. The demand is to tear down the so-called "firewall" against the AfD and start ...

Western actors have grown exasperated with Rwanda’s impunity and have been forced to change tack. Quiet shuttle diplomacy, ...

DEFA was established as the state-owned film studio of East Germany or the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Active from 1946 until its dissolution in 1992, the studio made hundreds of feature films ...