Even 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there’s still an imbalance between eastern and western Germany. Many executive positions in the former East are still held by people from the former ...

Despite disagreements on other is sues, West Germany's major parties have religiously respected the Federal Republic's No. 1 political taboo — that Bonn should never consider or discuss ...

Germany’s historical Drang nach Osten— push toward the East —has more often than not involved expansion and conquest at its neighbors’ expense. Now West Germany is looking eastward again ...

East German soldiers march through the state of Thuringia five years after East Germany gained admission to the United Nations. Photo by atlantic-kid/iStock By Frederic J. Frommer September 15, 2023 ...

July 1, 1990 - East and West Germany merge economies, East adopts deutschemark as currency. September 12, 1990 - World War Two allies and two German states sign treaty restoring sovereignty to ...

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 ...

Anna Wenske, 69, worked for decades at the national theater of East Germany, where she was born and still lives. “After the reunification, everything went kaput,” she said.

Economists note how average monthly wages have risen between 2014 and 2022 735 euros in the east compared with 585 euros in the west, and how lower costs of living were bringing real incomes even ...

The division between East and West Germany built a love for the Adidas EQT and ZX8000 in the East. Matt Welty. November 9, 2016. Share. Image via Complex Original. Complex Original.

Her performance was no accident of history. In its 40-year existence, East Germany dominated the Olympic Games. Despite its small size—the country’s population never rose past 19 million—the ...

The show explores the often-overlooked history of Jewish life in East Germany, a country that existed for roughly 40 years following World War II until shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in ...