The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) said Wednesday it was throwing out three party members who were arrested on suspicion of having joined an extremist paramilitary group.

In the charts below, we see that eastern Germany’s population is not only older on average than that of the west, but it has fallen significantly since reunification — from 16mn in 1990 to 12.6mn in ...

East Germany’s leadership had already sealed off the country ... Egon Krenz, who had just assumed power weeks, purged much of ...

The pair were elected by members of the post-communist party at a national ... was still "the force of solidarity" in Germany ...

While Germany's state governments have no direct influence over ... 55 - who started out as a Leninist theoretician for the ...