But you’ve heard whispers of another way—a way to flee through the dark, cold tunnels beneath Berlin.In this video, we take you through the hisImagine it's 1966, and you're living in East ...

West Germany never recognized East Germany as a nation, nor the wall as a legal border. Eastern maps of Berlin depicted the city beyond the wall as a featureless void, without streets or buildings.

In a seismic shift, the country’s electoral map — large swathes of which had colored SPD red in the 2021 election — turned black, for Merz’s conservatives, in the West. But the East colored ...

German election results show stark east-west divide decades after fall of Berlin Wall Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right ...

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the early euphoria of reunification, enduring economic inequalities between East and West have hollowed out support for Germany’s major ...

Germany’s far-right Alternative fur Deutschland party (AfD) party saw particular support in the former East Germany, as high as 46.7 per cent in some areas.

How did the East German state keep its people under surveillance? We get a peek behind the scenes at the former Stasi headquarters in Berlin. Search is on for not one, not two, but three Lotto ...

The next year, he cycled around the Berlin Wall again––this time along the 100- to 300-foot-wide former “death strip” between the two main barriers of the wall. This is where East Germans ...

The scars are visible in the depopulated villages and towns across much of the former gdr. Thuringia has shrunk by a fifth since 1990, and the decline in the east is set to continue (see map).

By: John Owen Berlin is a city famous for its history. Almost to a fault. For visitors to the German capital, the city’s most famous sights–the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag and the Holocaust ...