Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom ...

East Germans fleeing communism were once housed there. - 'Grief, depression, trauma' - Many communities have long complained ...

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, nostalgia for the old days and ways of socialist East Germany is stronger than ever. Germans even have a name for the phenomenon: “Ostalgie.” From ...

The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1990, which installed a rigid communist state known ...

The German branch of IKEA has pledged millions to compensate victims of the former Communist East German regime, who were ...

Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are ...

Ikea is not alone in the matter, as East Germany was a hotspot for cheap labor under the communist regime, which many ...

As Germany celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago on Nov. 9 1989, women look back at how different their lives ...

November 9 an imprecise instruction led to the collapse of the border infrastructure surrounding West Berlin, as Berliners took to tearing down the wall in the days after the suspension of the border ...

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War.

BERLIN — An 80-year-old former officer with East Germany’s Stasi secret police was found guilty Monday of killing a 38-year-old Polish man at a border crossing in East Berlin 50 years ago.

Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are ...