German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday meets state premiers from the ex-communist east, where support for the far-right AfD is surging ahead of the 35th anniversary of reunification. In ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives came out on top in municipal elections in the country’s most populous state, but ...

Depopulated towns in Germany's ex-communist east have come up with a novel scheme to bring back life: offering people several ...

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 — but this ...

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FILE PHOTO: Former prime minister of East Germany Modrow poses on the red carpet during the fourth Semperopernball in Dresden BERLIN (Reuters) -Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of ...

A show at the German Historical Museum honors Wolf Biermann, whose music and moral stance endeared him to audiences across the once divided country. By Christopher F. Schuetze Christopher Schuetze ...

As Germany readies to mark 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell, one symbol of the former communist East has become an icon of reunification, seen by millions every time they cross a street. East ...

(Reuters) - Following is timeline of East Germany which united with the West just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. May 8, 1945 - Nazi Germany capitulates, country divided ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

Our countdown continues by reflecting on East Germany's historic upset of West Germany in 1974. The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ is now just 37 days away. The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ is now just 37 ...

Near the East German village of Wandlitz, nine miles to the east of Berlin, is a most unusual settlement. It is a walled-in compound of semi-forested land and wide lawns, within which sit some 20 ...