Hoyer has several important advantages that Steinbeck and Capa lacked. East Germany’s fearsome internal security apparatus is long gone, which means her surviving subjects are free to speak openly ...

The story of Andreas Weidhaas' sex shop in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) or East Germany reveals a lot about reunification, big money and decline. But it also tells us a lot about life ...

In the northern outskirts of Berlin near Bernau once lay one of the most secretive and exclusive places of the former East ...

Victor Grossman, an outspoken critic of capitalism, was once an Army private named Stephen Wechsler. He has died at age 97.

Jenny Erpenbeck became a writer when her childhood and her country, the German Democratic Republic, disappeared, swallowed by the materialist West. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger first traveled to ...

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.

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 ...

Among casual observers of Eastern Europe’s people’s republics, East Germany retains a mistaken reputation for being an economic sad sack. Yet almost unnoticed, the country has risen to tenth place ...

Even after almost 35 years when the so-called German Reunification which was, in reality, a bit more like an Anschluss wherein West-Germany simply took over East-Germany occurred, a divided Germany ...

Germany's far-right party is dominating polls in the country's eastern region less than two weeks before the federal elections on Feb. 23 — and economic concerns have played a part in its popularity.

Yosef Tekoah as Israel’s ambassador to the UN from 1968 to 1975. Courtesy of Ben Gurion University of the Negev/Wikipedia A half-century ago on Monday, the United Nations voted to admit West Germany ...

Lenzen, Germany is turning itself into a green tourist destination, with the country’s largest vegan hotel and a nature preserve. It also has a fascinating Cold War history. ByChristopher Elliott, ...