This is the first of four reports on the crises that now beset Germany — what they are, the history that produced them, and how Germans think about finding their way forward once again. I thank ...

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 ...

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 ...

That is not easy to answer. What is clear, however, is that Kettcar tells a very detailed and in-depth story about an escape from the GDR (German Democratic Republic) into the Federal Republic of ...