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 ...

For months, the East Germans and Soviets had threatened a new Berlin cri sis if the West Germans persisted in their plan to convene the Federal Republic’s electoral college in the western half ...

De Maiziere spoke of incorporating East Germans' "sense of social justice, solidarity and tolerance" into the process of ...

Some of that support is fuelled by resentment that 35 years after Germany reunified, wages in the east are still lower than the west. People are increasingly disconnected from centrist politicians ...

In addition to West German advisors, de Maziere's government also received help from an unexpected quarter. The leader of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the successor to the old East ...

Throughout the summer of 1989, the Communist regime found itself under enormous pressure because huge numbers of East Germans were slipping through to the West by avoiding East Germany's lethally ...

He demanded that, as Berlin lay in East Germany, the Western powers should ... Again in June 1961, Khrushchev demanded that the Americans leave West Berlin. President John F.

In 2021, the SPD won on both ends of Germany’s decades-old and persistent East-West divide. But as the socialists beat a retreat in Sunday’s election, that gap became glaringly visible once more. In a ...