The firm’s chief executive said the field in the Baltic Sea might eventually produce up to 40,000 barrels of oil a day, ...

East Germany's leadership had already sealed off the country's main border with West Germany, which snaked from the Baltic Sea to Czechoslovakia, in 1952. The construction site of the Berlin Wall ...

More recently, Leipzig – not Berlin – was the focal point of protest in 1989 with a series of Monday night demonstrations that to general amazement brought the East German regime to its knees.

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 ...

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.

3 A couple look over the wall into East Berlin in April 1983. Salter says the testing of anti-vehicle barriers was only one part of a vast research-and-development effort to trap people inside the ...

Almost 35 years after the Berlin Wall fell and Germany reunited, the populist tilt of parts of the east has reignited a rancorous debate across the whole country.