Ulbricht even changed the name of East Germany’s Secretariat for All-German Affairs to the Secretariat of West German Affairs, to show that the two Germanys no longer have anything in common.

"Women in Divided Germany" is the title of an exhibition 35 years after reunification. It sheds light on the realities of life for women in former East and West Germany.Were women in communist ...

When East Germany was split off from the West in the aftermath of World War II, it had 18 million people. In the 15 years since then, 3,400,000 East Germans have fled to the West, leaving behind ...

This also applies to East Germany, even if here exports to the US play a smaller role than for the West German economy. In 2024, gross domestic product (GDP) in East Germany fell by 0.1% ...

Back then, the country used deutsche marks rather than euros, and the reunification of West Germany and communist East Germany was getting under way following the fall of the Berlin Wall the ...

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 ...

Germany, the pre-eminent European country for the past century, third in world GDP, the biggest economy in Europe and pivotal to the fortunes of the European Union, voted to elect a new parliament ...

The work of the first freely-elected People's Chamber ended on October 3, 1990, the day East and West Germany were reunited. The parliamentarians in East Berlin had fulfilled the wishes of the GDR ...