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 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.

BELOW: A West Berliner used a sledgehammer in an attempt to destroy part of the Berlin Wall near Potsdamer Platz, a public square and traffic intersection, on Nov. 12, 1989.

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 ...

The Soviet zone becomes East Germany (formally known as the German Democratic Republic). West Germany is a democratic republic. East Germany is a communist country aligned with the Soviet Union.

All major businesses were confiscated by the state in the Soviet zone of occupation — what would become the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany — after World War II. So were large farm ...

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 ...

The German Democratic Republic, or GDR, also simply known as East Germany, was founded as a second German state on October 7, 1949 — four years after the end of World War II.The Federal Republic ...

Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany's hard-left Die Linke ...