You only have to look at a map of Germany to see where much ... communist country with a very poor economy. The border between East and West Germany shut in 1952, with the divide in Berlin closing ...

From our special correspondent in Forst – Germany’s Brandenburg is known as a dynamic federal state with a thriving economy. But in the small town of Forst near the Polish border, residents ...

An astounding map that has emerged from Germany’s general election has shown just how divided the nation at the heart of Europe is.

Germany’s far-right Alternative fur Deutschland party (AfD) party saw particular support in the former East Germany ... a traditional town on the Polish border, the AfD took 46.7 per cent ...

In 1899, Britain drew a straight-line border along the 22nd ... Until the early 20th century, Germany controlled German South West Africa (now Namibia) and German East Africa (now Tanzania ...

The election map reveals that the AfD won almost all of the voting districts in the old East Germany (except for Berlin ... at least for a vote on a CDU border-control bill in the Bundestag.

people in the east finally broke the Berlin Wall in 1989 that marked the physical as well as the symbolic border between the two parts. In this backdrop, it makes sense that AfD’s stronghold today is ...

Once, in late winter 1972, a time when the Cold War was precarious, I was on the night train from Poznan, Poland, to Berlin, approaching the East German border. There had been a three-day general ...

In this context, the Berlin Wall was not just a border, but also a protective barrier against fascism. After 1989, neofascist groups rapidly expanded into East Germany, reinforcing the argument that ...