Schengen is now a symbol of the migration crisis driving the backlash against globalization and the ascendance of ...

Who would have known a holiday trip to Germany in December 1989, would have offered an opportunity to be an eyewitness to, ...

For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from fleeing. Independent producers Carl… On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

But it's largely unknown in western Germany. She believes this is just one small example of how East German experiences are being erased from the national memory. "When we talk about West Germany ...

Klaus Welle made these comments during a conversation at the Martens Centre European Ideas Forum 2024 moderated by Euronews, ...

It’s a near-miracle of history that West Germany’s enduring postwar democracy ... Yet Germans, both before and after the reunification of East and West that followed the fall of the Berlin ...

Most were civilians trying to flee to the West from communist East Germany. The 327 includes 262 who died at the Berlin Wall, and 24 East German border guards who were shot while on duty.

One velvety night in November, Gardy offered to marry Sturm if he would steal for her information on the workings of the Order of Battle Section and the names of U.S. agents in East Germany.

The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of 1989. For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no ...

"West Germany was free, West Germany was democratic, but the East was occupied by the Soviet Union", the German politician explained. "But we never gave up the hope, the vision, the desire to see ...