East Germany’s political collapse was mirrored in football, but a focus on youth brings hope for the future. https://p.dw.com/p/4miJb Magdeburg were once club with ...

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 ...

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 ...

A former East German secret police officer was sentenced to 10 years in jail in a landmark ruling on Monday for shooting dead a Polish man trying to flee to the West 50 years ago. The sentence ...

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 ...

BERLIN - Ikea pledged on Oct 29 to pay €6 million (S$8.6 million) into a hardship fund for victims of the East German dictatorship after admitting some of its suppliers used political prisoners ...

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 ...

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.

According to the study, voting behavior in East German states points to a strengthening of the political fringes and forces critical of democracy. In contrast to the 2021 federal election ...

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 ...