On 7th October 1989, the German Democratic Republic celebrated its 40th anniversary. The highlight was the military parade, and East Germany had a formidable military to show off.

This week marks the 28th anniversary of the formal dissolution of the German Democratic Republic. ... Federal Republic of Germany, while the Soviet-controlled East became the ...

On this day in 1990, the legislative chambers of both West and East Germany voted overwhelmingly in favor of unification. The vote in the West German Bundestag was 442 to 47. In the East German ...

Our foreign policy toward Eastern Europe is concerned with two closely linked areas: the Soviet Union, and the European states to the east and southeast of Germany which are connected with the Soviet ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to hit back at US President Donald Trump’s claim that “Germany is a captive of Russia” by drawing on her own upbringing in Soviet-controlled East ...

In 1952, communist East Germany closed its borders to the West. In 1961, the German Democratic Republic, as it was then known, erected a wall through the center of Berlin to keep its citizens from ...

German reunification, which was accompanied by a raft of subsidies to ease East Germany’s absorption into the Federal Republic, merely formalized this one-sided relationship.