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

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 ...

The all-encompaning privatizing shock that overtook East German industry after the Berlin Wall collapsed impacted football as well. Formerly state-ran clubs in the east suddenly had to compete with ...

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

Go Trabi Go! I keep thinking of that iconic 1991 film which so brilliantly portrayed an East German family in the first ...

Ikea’s German branch will pay a landmark €6 million compensation for the political prisoners in East Germany who were forced ...

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 ...

East Germans fleeing communism were once housed there. Now a centre in the German capital provides refuge to people who have escaped war and misery from Afghanistan to Africa.

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 ...