Imagine throwing away a piece of paper and being watched for years because of it. In East Germany, this was the reality. One ...

The year 1965 marked a turning point for art and culture in East Germany, when the ruling Socialist Unity Party decided to take a hard line against the “nihilistic“ and “pornographic“ Western ...

Walking through Weimar, Germany, the legacy of the Holocaust seems inescapable. Stolpersteine — German for “stumbling blocks” ...

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 ...

“We don’t have that!” was once a typical reply in shops throughout East Germany. Today, there are only recordings of that classical line to be experienced at the newly reopened GDR Museum in Berlin.

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An exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum explores the Jewish experience in the authoritarian, and officially atheist, communist state throughout the Cold War era. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Berlin ...

In all the lands where the hammer and sickle seek to blot out the cross, a pitiless struggle goes on to render unto the Red Caesars the things that are God’s. Last week the spiritual combat zone was ...

A show at the German Historical Museum honors Wolf Biermann, whose music and moral stance endeared him to audiences across the once divided country. By Christopher F. Schuetze Christopher Schuetze ...

The man in a lilac jumper is blunt. Why, he asks, is Germany a vassal of the USA? In reply Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, sketches a history of the Federal Republic, patiently adding that the ...