Football fans think they know the German story. After West Germany won the World Cup in 1954, 1974 and 1990, and made it to the final in 1966, 1982 and 1986, a newly-unified German national team ...

East German Football: The DDR-Oberliga. The East German domestic league was known as the DDR-Oberliga or East German Premier League. It was founded in 1949 and while there were some variations in ...

Opened in May by entrepreneurs Daniel Helbig, 35, and Guido Sand, 33, Ostel -- a German mashup of "East" and "Hostel" -- lucratively exploits the trend of "Ostalgie," or nostalgia for the lost ...

A historian from Potsdam, Giselher Spitzer, has lifted the lid on doping in former East German football, claiming entire teams were injected with banned substances without their knowledge.

As the Palast der Republik, the former house of the East German parliament is gradually dismantled, a new temple to the failed state has opened its doors a stone's throw away: the DDR Museum.

East Germany 1-0 West Germany: At the 1974 World Cup, Hamburg played host to an extraordinary meeting of two rival sides. The result was even more unbelievable, writes Adam Bushby ...

In 1976, East Germany won the football gold medal at the Montreal Olympics. ... The East Germany team in 1974. Sparwasser is first from the left on the back row, Kreische three along.

One hundred and sixty-seven former East German (DDR) athletes will be financially compensated through Germany’s Olympic Committee for the systematic doping of DDR athletes from 1973 through 1989.

In 1976, East Germany won the football gold medal at the Montreal Olympics. ... The East Germany team in 1974. Sparwasser is first from the left on the back row, Kreische three along.