Berlin is commemorating the 1953 East German uprising more than seven decades after citizens rose up to call for democracy. Dozens died in the bloody crackdown that followed. DW has the latest.

The heavily fortified border —the Berlin Wall— plugged the last gap between East and West. On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched.

As the West resolutely girded for any Communist-made showdown on Berlin, East German Puppet Boss Walter Ulbricht showed signs of nervousness. He ordered the 100,000 men of East Germany's ...

Nov. 4, 1989: Between 500,000 and 1 million people rally in East Berlin. East German TV broadcasts the event. Within days, the East German government resigns.

Half of the 200,000 East German refugees who have been arriving each year in the Federal Republic are under the age of twenty-five; their loss grows more serious each year to East Germany, for a ...

The Socialist Party is banned in East Germany itself, but it operates in East Berlin, just as the Communists are allowed to operate in West Berlin, where last December they got 1.9% of the vote.