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

Despite making up less than one-fifth of the German population, eastern German voters are in particular focus ahead of the ...

The successor to East Germany's Communist Party has made a late surge two weeks before a national election after its leader ...

The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of 1989. For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no ...

43, JULY - DECEMBER 2020 The turnaround in internal migration bet... BACKGROUND After losing a population of more than 1.2 million through migration to the West, in 2017 East Germany recorded net ...

Report shows archive footage of the Berlin Wall. Map of East and West Germany. Archive footage of the building of the Berlin Wall. Newspaper headlines about people escaping from East Germany to ...

After the German reunification following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the economy of East Germany was characterized by lower incomes, higher unemployment and weaker growth compared to the West.

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 ...