How a polluted East German city became a hipster paradise
These peaceful protests were so vast (subsequent demonstrations numbered up to half a million people) that the East German ...
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German reunification: Young Germans in search of their eastern roots
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 ...
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Ikea to compensate East German prisoners for forced labor
The German branch of Ikea has pledged millions to compensate victims of the former Communist East German regime, who were forced to make furniture components in the GDR. Germany's Bundestag ...
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East German border claimed 327 lives, says Berlin study
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.
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BFC Dynamo: What happened to the East German champions?
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 ...
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Ikea to compensate political prisoners who built furniture during East German dictatorship with €6m
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 ...
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Former East German Stasi agent convicted of murder half a century later
The public prosecutor said that the defendant, who was a first lieutenant in an operational group of the former East German Ministry for State Security, was tasked with "neutralising" Kukuczka ...
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This Eastern city just hit a record streak with no measurable rain
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 ...
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50 years later, German Stasi agent is convicted of murder, gets 10 years
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.
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IKEA will pay 6 million euros to East German prisoners forced to build their furniture in landmark move
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 ...
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IKEA pledges to pay millions to East German prisoners for forced labour
IKEA has promised to pay $6 million euros ($9.9 million) to political prisoners of the East German dictatorship who were forced to make its products. The company previously admitted some of its ...