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.

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 ...

Cold War centre for East German escapees now houses world's refugees. Today, Arabic, Afghan and African voices can be heard in the courtyard of the facility that first opened in 1953 and which ...

‘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 ...

The Wüstenrot Foundation has made preserving East German public art a focus of its heritage protection work. In 2019, the foundation completed the reinstallation of a Renau mosaic composed of ...

Kunakhovich 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. He shows ...

In early January of 1984, an aspiring young West German socialist with a shoulder-length curly mane traveled by train to East Berlin with his comrades for an important meeting. It was a tense time in ...

East v West - Germany's drug-fuelled Cold War for medals "These are all harmless drugs. All athletes take them. It's really nothing special." That was what German heptathlete Birgit Dressel, who ...

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.