Three states in former East Germany face elections in September, with the far-right Alternative für Deutschland leading polls. The party is exploiting voter discontent with the fallout of ...

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 ...

How did the East German state keep its people under surveillance? We get a peek behind the scenes at the former Stasi headquarters in Berlin. Search is on for not one, not two, but three Lotto ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the economy in East Germany broadly collapsed as local businesses and companies faltered and unemployment soared. Despite the federal government spending ...

East Germany is a far-right stronghold — and economic concerns helped make it happen By Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC • Published February 12, 2025 • Updated on February 12, 2025 at 3:19 am ...

West Germany’s parties failed to put down roots in the east after 1990, he argues; the success there of the cdu in the post-reunification years was a “chimera”.

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 ...

The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before the federal election on Feb. 23.