EADaily, . Thick smog from Poland and the Czech Republic covered East Germany, February promises to be the worst month for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Historic passenger coaches such as this newly restored SVT Goerlitz stand on the premises of VIS (Verkehrs Industrie Systeme ...

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 ...

East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was once a prominent player in the Eastern Bloc, with a relatively advanced industrial base during the Cold War. However, one of ...

In the northern outskirts of Berlin near Bernau once lay one of the most secretive and exclusive places of the former East Germany. In the so-called Waldsiedlung Wandlitz, the political leadership ...

Katja Hoyer’s "Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany" presents a nuanced and thought-provoking history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Unlike the traditional Western perspective that ...