Berlin is commemorating the 1953 East German uprising more than seven decades after citizens rose up to call for democracy. Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner has praised the "courageous women and men" who ...

BERLIN — A Berlin court on Monday found a former officer of the East German secret police guilty of murder in what is the first verdict of its kind. The court sentenced the former member of East ...

The most significant difference between the two is the MG 1’s chambering, from the German Imperial 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridge to the somewhat smaller NATO-standard 7.62x51mm.

BERLIN, Aug. 15, 1961 (UPI)--- Communist East German police opened fire today for the first time on refugees fleeing East Berlin. They also arrested scores of anti-Communists. The police began to ...

Our foreign policy toward Eastern Europe is concerned with two closely linked areas: the Soviet Union, and the European states to the east and southeast of Germany which are connected with the Soviet ...

BERLIN, Nov 16 (Reuters) - IKEA apologised on Friday for using the forced labour of political prisoners in communist East Germany to make some of its furniture during the 1980s. Sign up here.

German election results show stark east-west divide decades after fall of Berlin Wall . Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far ...

For better or worse, the East German experience between 1949 and 1990 left a legacy that has survived the disappearance of the state. Reunified Germany will need to come to terms with this history ...

In the east German campaign it was one of its main selling points. That was evident at a rally in the Thuringian town of Suhl a couple of weeks before the election where Carolin Lichtenheld, ...

01/23/2024 January 23, 2024. In East Africa and the Great Lakes region, German colonial conquest spurred courageous resistance from many local East African groups against well-armed and violent ...