I keep thinking of that iconic 1991 film which so brilliantly portrayed an East German family in the first throes of freedom following the fall of the Berlin Wall jumping into their Trabant car to ...

At the end of the Cold War, East Germany's systematic doping secrets spilled out. The truth on the other side of the Berlin Wall has taken longer to emerge.

In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from ...

In the east of the country, several big supermarket chains have revived food products that hark back to the region’s socialist past during the Cold War. Now, they stand accused of ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

‘Cold War warriors’ deserve medals to recognise ‘risk and rigour’ in East Germany, says Maj-Gen Calls to honour veterans who operated covertly in Germany between 1946 and 1990 ‘fighting ...

An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, went on trial Thursday over the killing of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided Berlin 50 years ago.

Cold War centre for East German escapees now houses world's refugees. Today, Arabic, Afghan and African voices can be heard in the courtyard of the facility that first opened in 1953 and which ...

Martin Naumann shot 38-year-old Polish citizen Czesław Kukuczka at a border crossing while working for the East German secret police, ruled a court in Berlin.

East v West - Germany's drug-fuelled Cold War for medals. Article Information. Author, Olivier Guiberteau; Role, BBC Sport; 19 August 2024 "These are all harmless drugs. All athletes take them.

East v West - Germany's drug-fuelled Cold War for medals. Published 19 August 2024; Image source, Getty Images. Olivier Guiberteau. BBC Sport "These are all harmless drugs. All athletes take them.