Tomorrow marks the 25 th anniversary of German reunification. And since the radical reunion of East and West at the end of the Cold War, Germany has become Europe’s undisputed leader.

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in einestages.de , SPIEGEL ONLINE's award-winning history portal. The discrete directive to journalists was clear: "Don't do anything that might ...

Aftonbladet reports the prisoners were paid about 40 East German marks a month for their work and that at the time a "normal monthly salary" in East Germany was around 1,000 East German marks.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Berlin: The East German lieutenant colonel who gave the fateful order to throw open the Berlin Wall 25 years ago said he wept in ...

The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1990, which installed a rigid communist state known as the German Democratic Republic, or GDR. Tens of thousands of its ...

The investment expert, it turns out, was the celebrated East German double agent Werner Stiller, whose 1979 defection dealt his bosses at the Stasi intelligence agency a blow from which they never ...

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War.

It evidently hasn't been touched since early 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the place is filled with East German furniture, fittings and grocery brands that give a glimpse of ...