The crimes committed by the government of the former East Germany should not be played down, a German official said on Friday. Evelyn Zupke, the commissioner responsible for the victims of the former ...

Former chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, has called German reunification "a great stroke of luck," despite the challenges, in an interview as the nation celebrates 35 years since ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

"Women in Divided Germany" is the title of an exhibition 35 years after reunification. It sheds light on the realities of ...

Three decades after German reunification, a group of camping enthusiasts from the former East Germany continues to preserve their shared history through biannual gatherings. Approximately 150 families ...

For the first time since the 1948 Soviet blockade, the Communists this week shut off German traffic on the Autobahn linking West Berlin and West Germany. Armed Red police forbade anyone to leave East ...

The character of the DDR. Of course, when you switch the criteria of power and privilege from economic entrepreneurship to political rectitude, you are bound to rely on lies, on corruption and ...

Germany's far-right party is dominating polls in the country's eastern region less than two weeks before the federal elections on Feb. 23 — and economic concerns have played a part in its popularity.

BERLIN (AP) — An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border crossing in ...