In the northern outskirts of Berlin near Bernau once lay one of the most secretive and exclusive places of the former East ...

It's not a lakeside villa or a downtown condominium - it's an unassuming property nestled in a forest near Pasewalk, a German town west of the Polish border, that Heinz Fuhrmann wants to sell for €1 ...

Rolling into Germany with salvage crews and empty freight cars, the Soviet conquerors of 1945 carted off everything of value. To Mother Russia went East Germany’s ...

Near the East German village of Wandlitz, nine miles to the east of Berlin, is a most unusual settlement. It is a walled-in compound of semi-forested land and wide lawns, within which sit some 20 ...

Frieder Heinze and Olaf Wegewitz, 18 Unaulutu: Steinchen im Sand (Leipzig: Reklam, 1985) (all images courtesy Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library) Through zines sneaked ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

The Alternative for Germany party was on course to win in Thuringia, according to projections, in what was seen as a worrying sign of the health of German democracy. By Steven Erlanger and Christopher ...

AS KHRUSHCHEV well knows, conditions within his East German satellite have been steadily worsening and are now at an all-time low in its checkered twelve-year history. There is a growing shortage of ...

The core differences between the East German “National People’s Army” (NVA) and the Nazi German Wehrmacht that came before it were doctrinal in nature. Despite having a handful of outward similarities ...

Though spared from actual warfare, the tank’s role in deterrence and crisis response was crucial, influencing global military dynamics and leaving an indelible mark on armored history. During the Cold ...