Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom ...

The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1990, which installed a rigid communist state known ...

November 9 an imprecise instruction led to the collapse of the border infrastructure surrounding West Berlin, as Berliners ...

On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I took a Trabi through the heartlands of the former GDR ...

East Germans fleeing communism were once housed there. - 'Grief, depression, trauma' - Many communities have long complained ...

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, nostalgia for the old days and ways of socialist East Germany is stronger than ever. Germans even have a name for the phenomenon: “Ostalgie.” From ...

As Germany celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago on Nov. 9 1989, women look back at how different their lives ...

Ikea is not alone in the matter, as East Germany was a hotspot for cheap labor under the communist regime, which many ...

IKEA will pay $6.5 million to a German government fund to compensate victims of forced labor in East Germany during the Cold War. Political and criminal prisoners were forced to produce IKEA furniture ...

The lender considers the newly launched services as having the potential to ease and empower business linkages, support trade ...

The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1990, which installed a rigid communist state known as the German Democratic Republic, or GDR. Tens of thousands of its ...

(CNN) — Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labor under Germany’s communist dictatorship, in a move ...