The story of Andreas Weidhaas' sex shop in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) or East Germany reveals a lot about reunification, big money and decline. But it also tells us a lot about life ...

The ruling coalition in Germany's eastern state of Brandenburg lost its majority on Tuesday, sparking calls from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1980s East Germany, there was a group of independent fashion designers, photographers, models and stylists who refused to play along with the socialist regime’s excessive egalitarianism. They ...

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 ...

East Germany opened the Berlin Wall and its other borders Thursday, and its cheering citizens crossed freely to the West for the first time since 1961. Hundreds of people danced on the wall.

Among casual observers of Eastern Europe’s people’s republics, East Germany retains a mistaken reputation for being an economic sad sack. Yet almost unnoticed, the country has risen to tenth place ...

Let's paint the scene for you. It's 1991, and you're a former East German peasant factory laborer from one of the cities unfortunate enough to fall on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain. The Berlin ...