People often write about the mixer, "It runs and runs and runs." This comment is likely a reference to the well-known ...

It's not a lakeside villa or a downtown condominium - it's an unassuming property nestled in a forest near Pasewalk, a German town west of the Polish border, that Heinz Fuhrmann wants to sell for €1 ...

They were the first babies of newly reunified Germany. Some were born in a vanished state, East German communist symbols stamped in their birth certificates. Others shortly after German reunification, ...

Camping was popular in East Germany when travel options were limited. Families spent summers at lakes, in forests, or at ...

Volkswagen’s Zwickau plant in southeastern Germany symbolizes the unresolved conflict between the former East and West ...

Rolling into Germany with salvage crews and empty freight cars, the Soviet conquerors of 1945 carted off everything of value. To Mother Russia went East Germany’s ...

Nostalgia for the East — or ostalgie, a portmanteau combining the words ost (‘east’) and nostalgie (‘nostalgia’) — has taken hold in contemporary, unified Germany. A symbol of the former East Germany, ...

The morning after the Berlin Wall came crashing down in November 1989, nine-year-old Thomas Töpfer was one of the few East German kids who turned up for school. He found his teacher in tears and half ...

The Stasi, or East German secret police, were notorious as one of the most repressive and feared institutions of the East German Communist government — and they left behind an unsettling record.

Peter Keup can still remember how it felt to hold deutsche marks in his hand. “It was special to even touch this money,” he recalls. “It felt solid. The East German mark was thinner, flimsier.” As a ...

Markus Wolf, who outwitted the West as communist East Germany’s long-serving spymaster, has died. He was 83. Wolf passed away early Thursday morning in his apartment in Berlin, his step-daughter ...