The stark east-west divide in national vote share from Germany’s national election on Sunday has been revealed in new data. News agency Reuters has created a map using result figures that show a ...

NPR's Guy Raz reports from the eastern German city of Schwerin that since East Germany adopted the West German currency ten years ago, the road to economic reform in the East has been rocky.

a bit more like an Anschluss wherein West-Germany simply took over East-Germany occurred, a divided Germany continues to appear today. There is no more wall, but there still is a division between ...

For weeks, East Germany’s Communists have been quibbling over details of the much-discussed speakers’ exchange to debate East-West problems with the West German Social Democrats. Last week the ...

On this day in 1990, West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of division that began in the aftermath of World War II by reuniting to become one nation. The occasion, The New York Times ...

Germany’s historical Drang nach Osten— push toward the East —has more often than not involved expansion and conquest at its neighbors’ expense. Now West Germany is looking eastward again ...

In a life that crisscrossed the East-West border that once divided Germany, Biermann’s music and principled moral stance made him a rare figure who transcended that barrier. Now, his tale is a ...

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 ...