The history of the East German helmets actually goes back to the Second World War, when as early as 1942 the German army was looking at ways of simplifying its production methods, and in producing ...

The Cold War-era Makarov is a common pistol, but within the hundreds of thousands made, the East German variants are the most desirable.

The East German Makarov is an intriguing pistol that is emblematic of the bygone Cold War era. Interest in the PM is growing as collectors have come to appreciate its fine qualities and numerous ...

In the final years before the Berlin Wall fell, East Germans described their grievances on cassette tapes that were smuggled to West Berlin and then broadcast back to the east on Radio Glasnost.

At the end of the Cold War, East Germany's systematic doping secrets spilled out. The truth on the other side of the Berlin Wall has taken longer to emerge.

Reader John from the Cambridge University Press blog tips us off to these crazy East German police (Stasi) gadgets used during the cold war. Lots of these gadgets are what you’d expect cold war ...

I keep thinking of that iconic 1991 film which so brilliantly portrayed an East German family in the first throes of freedom following the fall of the Berlin Wall jumping into their Trabant car to ...

During the Cold War, the East German government claimed the Americans were dropping potato beetles out of planes over their fields in an attempt to sabotage their crops - but was it true, or just ...

In the east of the country, several big supermarket chains have revived food products that hark back to the region’s socialist past during the Cold War.

‘Cold War warriors’ deserve medals to recognise ‘risk and rigour’ in East Germany, says Maj-Gen Calls to honour veterans who operated covertly in Germany between 1946 and 1990 ‘fighting ...

Kunakhovich’s book presents a richly detailed chronicle of the relations between political and cultural actors in the East German city of Leipzig and the Polish city of Krakow during the Cold War.

Launched in 1958 from a tiny East Berlin office on the famous Stalinallee — renamed Karl-Marx-Allee after the 1989 reunification — founding editor Margot Pfannstiel and the legendary German ...