An exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum explores the Jewish experience in the authoritarian, and officially atheist, communist state throughout the Cold War era.

Imagine it's 1966, and you're living in East Berlin, a city divided by the infamous Berlin Wall. The East German government, desperate to prevent citizens from fleeing to the West, has fortified every ...

Trainspotters have one last chance to see Berlin's beloved Model 485s, known to fans as "Coke Cans," before the city decommissions the last of its GDR S-Bahn trains.

1 A vehicle smashes into a steel barrier at a secret testing location in East Germany where obstacles to prevent people speeding to freedom through East Berlin's checkpoints were tested. This 1980 ...

Union Berlin are the Bundesliga's fairytale success story who are now taking on Europe's grandees - so how did they do it?

Throughout all the maneuvers over Berlin, one thing has not changed: Walter Ulbricht's nasty little regime in East Germany is in serious trouble. Last week Ulbricht wasadmitting it.The end of ...

Former dissidents, released secret service files and a zine in an East Berlin basement reveal a little-known chapter of Cold War history.

You can find the Sonnenallee on any Berlin map. Since the Wall fell in 1989, this long street running through the district of Neukölln no longer has a disputed border of world-historical ...

When the Berlin Wall fell, East German “stuff” went to landfills. The nostalgia of identity is creating a new market for communist-era goods.

Unlike in the Federal Republic, by 1968 homosexuality was already de-criminalised in the German Democratic Republic’s penal code. But the ‘workers’ and farmers’ state’ did not exactly welcome its gay ...

The few Westerners who experienced the GDR did so when driving across it to the fleshpots of West Berlin, or when they caught a budget flight to a far-flung destination (Cuba was a favourite) at ...

Hans Modrow, the last communist head of government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which he led from November 1989 to April 1990, died on Saturday, February 11 in Berlin. He was 95 years old.