For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division ... attention to East Germany; in the second half of the year, beginning with the huge exodus of East Germans to the West but especially ...

Regional elections in Germany bring into question the need for the government to spend more on structural social ...

He adds that "silence or looking the other way will not make this division disappear ... not led to a convergence of views between East and West Germany but has become a driver of alienation ...

Germany's minimum wage has significantly increased the incomes of low wage earners, particularly in eastern Germany, ...

Two families in East Germany, longing for freedom, built their own hot air balloon out of masses of taffeta, bought secretly in preparations that took more than a year. They planned to flee and cross ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. Aug. 13, 1961, on what would become known as ...

BONN, Germany, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Two of the Russian dissidents who were freed from prison and arrived in Germany as part of last week's major East-West prisoner ... and media division of Thomson ...

David Ferris, a reporter for POLITICO's E&E News, covers electric vehicles and how they change American life. SAVANNAH, ...

For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from fleeing. Independent producers Carl… On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

The two families were dicing with death, as guards protecting the border in East Germany, then part of the Eastern Bloc, were ordered to use lethal force to prevent people defecting to the West.

Humanities, Vol. 7, Issue. 3, p. 88. This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in ...