Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) officially launched an effort seeking to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, according to The Berliner on Monday. SPD delegates voted unanimously on ...

Europe News: Explore the dramatic espionage trials in Germany involving Russian agents, focusing on sabotage plots and historical espionage cases.

ON November 9, 1989, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) relinquished its border security to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). While the world watched images of euphoric citizens pouring into ...

The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1990, which installed a rigid communist state known as the German Democratic Republic, or GDR.

Then came the legacy of the German Democratic Republic, the former Soviet-occupied East Germany, which lasted 40 years and self-identified as anti-fascist and anti-Western.

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.

East Germany is, quite simply, part of German history and the country she grew up in. To ignore it, or to understand it through Cold war clichés, would be to misunderstand German history as a whole.

How Semiconductors Ruined East Germany-YouTube In the late 1980s, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was fully committed to the tremendous task of 'domesticizing semiconductors'.

Scattered across Germany, but primarily in what was once the Soviet-dominated German Democratic Republic in the east, are more than 4,000 protected monuments commemorating the sacrifices of Soviet ...