These peaceful protests were so vast (subsequent demonstrations numbered up to half a million people) that the East German ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

With the anniversary of German unification on Sunday, the 10-time East German champions are languishing in the fourth division. BFC Dynamo are a unique club battling with the specters of past and ...

Ikea was among many companies that profited from forced labor in prisons under the former East German dictatorship. Its decision to contribute compensation in the form of a "hardship fund" might ...

Germany's ruling coalition government has finally agreed on a new antisemitism resolution after months of debate amongst German politicians and fears that it will silence critics of Israel.

The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1990, which installed a rigid communist state known as the German Democratic Republic, or GDR. Tens of thousands of its ...

In parts of the East, you’ll maybe — maybe — see some rain on Friday. That’s when a dying cold front will make it to the East Coast. The cold front is already bringing snow to the Rockies ...

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.