it would create a shining alternative for the Russians living in dismal conditions across the new border. And much as West Germany inspired a desire for democracy among East Germans, a prosperous ...

THOUSANDS of families could be wrenched apart if Ukraine is carved up like post-World War Two Germany, a former Nato ...

The AfD's popularity in Germany is growing - 25% support. How did the country of exemplary denazification turn out to be ...

When East Germany was split off from the West in the aftermath of World War ... Trouble is that Communism’s proven means of sealing borders—land-mined strips, barbed-wire barriers and machine ...

About an hour into the rambling news conference, Schabowski mentioned that East Germany was lifting all restrictions on travel across its border into West Germany. Pressed on when the new ...

Pressed up against the German border, along the Rhine, the region flip-flopped between Germany and France for centuries. (The Germans considered the Vosges Mountains, east of the Rhine ...

This also applies to East Germany, even if here exports to the US play a smaller role than for the West German economy. In 2024, gross domestic product (GDP) in East Germany fell by 0.1% ...

Knowing that the East Aurora—West Aurora athletic rivalry had also become synonymous with Aurora for many people, Richardson had a “light bulb” moment in 1997. She wondered if she could ...

Atlas,” Natalie Koch wrote about Western movies — but not the American ones. Germany has a significant cinematic tradition of stories set in the Old West.

Gone was East Germany’s boast that it could overtake West Germany in consumer-goods output this year. Goals were being set lower. The target of the East German economic growth rate for 1961 has ...