It sheds light on the realities of life for women in former East and West Germany. Were women in communist East Germany (GDR) ...

West Germany was a capitalist democracy with a prosperous economy, while East Germany was a communist country with a very poor economy. The border between East and West Germany shut in 1952 ...

We need to look not just at the legacy of the GDR and communism, but also the legacy of post-socialism in East Germany to understand why the AfD was so successful taking over the role as advocate ...

Yet, to this day, bourgeois authors and politicians attempt to shift blame for the rise of neofascist movements in East Germany to the GDR. By doing so, they ignore a crucial reality: after the ...

The current alliance was built in 1993 with activist groups from the formerly communist East Germany. Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, 55, is the top election candidate of the Greens, which is also ...

RFI/Jan van der Made Die Linke is an offspring of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) that ruled communist East Germany for seven decades. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ...

“There’s a sense of momentum throughout the party.” The Left, which traces some of its roots back to East Germany’s communist party, is doing particularly well at appealing to young voters across the ...

Weidel capitalised on voter frustration, particularly in the former East Germany ... parties less deeply rooted in eastern Germany due to its communist past. In a couple of western German ...

the focus of “The Spies Among Us,” as well as our guide to Germany’s history with communist dictatorship. Keup was imprisoned for attempting to escape East Germany, but ultimately had his freedom ...

The current alliance was built in 1993 with activist groups from the formerly communist East Germany. Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck, 55, is the top election candidate of the Greens, which is also ...