BERLIN (Reuters) - Life in the Communist-ruled German Democratic Republic (GDR) was simpler and sometimes could be "almost comfortable in a certain way", Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in the ...

After World War II, the Soviet Union transformed their occupied zone in Germany into the German Democratic Republic. One of the many communist states in the Eastern Bloc, East Germany developed a ...

BERLIN (CNN) -- As Germany celebrates the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, some Germans have started to look back fondly to the days of the former communist-ruled East Germany. The ...

German cinema, especially as it relates to the way in which Germans in the former communist East Germany looked upon the west, is the focus of a planned film series culminating in a lecture by Michael ...

Once trapped in communist East Germany, bustling Leipzig is now a city of business and of culture. It’s also a city of great history — Martin Luther, Goethe, Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, ...

(John MACDOUGALL/AFP/AFP) Depopulated towns in Germany's ex-communist east have come up with a novel scheme to bring back life: offering people several weeks of super-cheap housing to give would-be ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former East German defense minister Heinz Kessler, sentenced to prison after the fall of the Berlin Wall for his role in the killing of people trying to flee the Communist state, ...

Show more Show less Scars from the post-1989 economic collapse and an enduring east-west wealth gap are often cited as contributing to the surging popularity of the far-right Alternative for Germany ...