The roads are infinitely better too. Chemnitz, my second port of call, is the city East Germany’s leaders decided in 1953 to re-christen Karl-Marx-Stadt – only for that change to be reversed ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

But last week TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers was allowed a rare U.S. look at Dresden, East Germany’s third largest city, set deep in the southern Saxony hills of East Germany on the ...

ruin-strewn cities and 17½ million sullen, shabby subjects, looks a sorry state. It is a poor thing, but Khrushchev’s own. He is determined to hang on to it. To the Russians, East Germany ...

Nevertheless, residents in East Germany still have a negative perception ... Germans are leaving more rural regions in favor of major cities, Berenberg's Schmieding explained, and this has weighed ...

Once trapped in communist East Germany, bustling Leipzig is now a city of business and of culture. It’s also a city of great ...

Map: The Economist Demography provides another clue. The entire country is ageing, but in much of east Germany outside cities like Leipzig and Jena the situation is essentially irredeemable.

The show explores the often-overlooked history of Jewish life in East Germany, a country that existed ... painted with the cities that marked their trip back: “London, Brussels, Berlin.” ...