The East German government's secret police switched cars on the journey - they wanted to ensure no one would find it. The Stasi revealed their plan after questioning the 18-year-old forward.

Philipp Mehne (L), Managing Director of Land of Ideas Management GmbH and Director of the East German Economic Forum, joins Manuela Schwesig, Minister President of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ...

Bartsch's The Left - a successor to the Socialist Unity Party which once governed East Germany - surged to 8.8% in February's election, which strong support in its eastern heartlands.

A team has collected more than 400 hours of East German home movies to illustrate that life in the Soviet satellite state was more than totalitarian clichés. Video supplied by open-memory-box.de.

The state premier of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has called on the new government of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to take decisive action to kick start the sluggish economy. "No economic growth for ...