ON November 9, 1989, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) relinquished its border security ... After 1989, neofascist groups rapidly expanded into East Germany, reinforcing the argument that the wall ...

In vast swaths of the country’s east, the far-right party ... into the Western-backed Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the Soviet-backed German Democratic Republic (GDR).

In 1990, 400 East German lawmakers became the first parliamentarians to have come to power in free and fair elections. On March 18, 1990, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged as the ...

Almost all of the old East Germany has turned AfD blue. The party has always been more popular in German areas that were once under Soviet rule, but this year has tightened its grip. Image ...