"Women in Divided Germany" is the title of an exhibition 35 years after reunification. It sheds light on the realities of life for women in former East and West Germany.Were women in communist ...

Ulbricht even changed the name of East Germany’s Secretariat for All-German Affairs to the Secretariat of West German Affairs, to show that the two Germanys no longer have anything in common.

In the event of a peace settlement dividing Ukraine in two, the nations of the West have a critical interest in strengthening the western half—both as a bulwark against Russian encroachment and as a ...

This also applies to East Germany, even if here exports to the US play a smaller role than for the West German economy. In 2024, gross domestic product (GDP) in East Germany fell by 0.1% ...

The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of 1989. For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no ...

After World War II, Germany was divided into what became two sectors: West Germany, controlled by the Western Allies (United ...

The work of the first freely-elected People's Chamber ended on October 3, 1990, the day East and West Germany were reunited. The parliamentarians in East Berlin had fulfilled the wishes of the GDR ...

In the late 1990s, Dr. Erika Von Mutius, a health researcher, compared the rates of allergies and asthma in East and West Germany. Her hypothesis was that children growing up in the poorer ...

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 ...