For decades, Germany has stood squarely in Israel’s corner, its dark history of Jewish persecution shaping its modern-day ...

Katja Hoyer’s "Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany" presents a nuanced and thought-provoking history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Unlike the traditional Western perspective ...

Instead, Germany’s first democratic society only emerged for a short time – between the years 1919 and 1933. In other words, East-Germans who were living under a Stalinist regime between 1945 ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

It has a history dating all the way back to the Holy ... Erfurt escaped bombing in World War 2 and was preserved as part of East Germany. So visiting Erfurt is a real historical treat with its ...

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. Germany’s ruling coalition collapsed on Wednesday, the same day Donald ...

On a wet evening in Suhl, in the former East Germany ... figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Höcke, a former history teacher, has been found guilty of using Nazi ...

which was part of East Germany. Most of them live in the regional capital, Erfurt, which has a long Jewish history that dates back to the 12th century. The oldest preserved synagogue in Europe is ...

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. The word “unprecedented” may get near-inflationary use in political ...

Customers wait at a waffles stand in a Christmas market in East Berlin ... documenting the history of the Christmas markets, the scholars hope to lay the groundwork should Germany decide to ...

Björn Höcke is a former history teacher, who is described by ... The sense I came away with this time in East Germany is that the concerns about the far right are much more developed.