Another company has reintroduced “NVA Soup,” named after the East German military, the National People’s Army.Males were conscripted for at least 18 months of service, and the NVA maintained ...

The morning after the Berlin Wall came crashing down in November 1989, nine-year-old Thomas Töpfer was one of the few East German kids who turned up for school.. He found his teacher in tears and ...

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 ...

German Election Results Highlight Old Divides Between East And West : Parallels Many voters in the eastern part of the country supported the far-right Alternative for Germany party. "The ...

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 ...

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 — 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 ...

Armani Doshi, 27, of East Boston, is accused of regular abuse of a German shepherd dog, including walking the dog in a headlock and lying on her neck in public spaces.

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 ...

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, 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.

The German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, along with translator Michael Hofmann, were on Tuesday named winners of the International Booker Prize for her fourth novel, titled Kairos.. The book, originally ...