Although no one could have predicted the extraordinary events that rocked East Germany in the second half of 1989, the Bush administration was slow to react when they occured. During the first ...

East German “Cowboy and Indian” stories almost ... Most of them are just curious about another culture and how they live.

Last week Schörner came back from the dead. Released from a brainwashing camp somewhere in the Soviet Union, he arrived in East Germany to take over “a military post.” When the Communists ...

Thousands of residents and visitors gathered for a glitzy array of festivities in the eastern German city of Chemnitz on Saturday as it took over the mantle of European Capital of Culture. Under the ...

Stasi officers “kept an iron grip on every aspect of life inside East Germany”, but tried to destroy their internal records when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, says the newspaper. But the files ...

A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...