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 ...

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

They were the first babies of newly reunified Germany. Some were born in a vanished state, East German communist symbols stamped in their birth certificates. Others shortly after German reunification, ...

Victor Grossman, an outspoken critic of capitalism, was once an Army private named Stephen Wechsler. He has died at age 97.

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 ...

The morning after the Berlin Wall came crashing down in November 1989, nine-year-old Thomas Töpfer was one of the few East German kids who turned up for school. He found his teacher in tears and half ...

The Stasi, or East German secret police, were notorious as one of the most repressive and feared institutions of the East German Communist government — and they left behind an unsettling record.

Peter Keup can still remember how it felt to hold deutsche marks in his hand. “It was special to even touch this money,” he recalls. “It felt solid. The East German mark was thinner, flimsier.” As a ...

Nostalgia for the East — or ostalgie, a portmanteau combining the words ost (‘east’) and nostalgie (‘nostalgia’) — has taken hold in contemporary, unified Germany. A symbol of the former East Germany, ...

An East German sprinter who was cut open by Stasi surgeons after she tried to defect, has spoken of her brave escape and fight for justice. As a 23-year-old Ines Geipel had been destined for Soviet ...

Markus Wolf, who outwitted the West as communist East Germany’s long-serving spymaster, has died. He was 83. Wolf passed away early Thursday morning in his apartment in Berlin, his step-daughter ...