I keep thinking of that iconic 1991 film which so brilliantly portrayed an East German family in the first throes of freedom ...

East Germans fleeing communism were once housed there. Now a centre in the German capital provides refuge to people who have ...

Political as well as criminal prisoners in Germany during the Cold War era were forced to build flatpack furniture ... the ...

A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...

Martin Naumann shot 38-year-old Polish citizen Czesław Kukuczka at a border crossing while working for the East German secret police, ruled a court in Berlin.

On 13 August 1961, the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete ...

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

It will be paid to a new German government fund aiming to compensate victims of the former East German dictatorship. The compensation from IKEA will heap pressure on other western companies ...

During the Cold War, when Germany was split between West and East, people still fell in love across the physical and ideological border. Some risked everything to cross over to join their partners.

During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon was ... Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. They also made a similar commitment to defend each other.

Political as well as criminal prisoners in Germany during the Cold War era were forced to build ... the report found. The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until ...