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 ...

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 ...

How Germany voted: Election results map shows far-right AfD surge in East as CDU win most seats The conservative alliance led by Feidrich Merz took the most seats in the German Bundestag, but ...

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.

How the Berlin Wall Became a 100-Mile Bike and Pedestrian Trail Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin’s symbol of death and division has been turned into a tangible ...

Why east Germany is such fertile ground for extremists The Alternative for Germany is set for record-breaking performances in coming state elections ...

Go off the beaten path to uncover Berlin's fascinating lesser-known historical sites. From a park with a surprising WWII secret to a lake house linked to the Holocaust, discover the stories hidden ...