“We don’t have that!” was once a typical reply in shops throughout East Germany. Today, there are only recordings of that classical line to be experienced at the newly reopened GDR Museum in Berlin.

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 ...

Throughout all the maneuvers over Berlin, one thing has not changed: Walter Ulbricht’s nasty little regime in East Germany is in serious trouble. Last week Ulbricht wasadmitting it. The end of 1961 ...

FOR a long time it was fashionable to write of the impending catastrophe in East Germany, of chronic industrial stagnation, incipient economic collapse, even of famine. But, in fact, East German ...

(Reuters) - Following is timeline of East Germany which united with the West just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. May 8, 1945 - Nazi Germany capitulates, country divided ...