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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 12:19 am ...