In Germany, at least 8,000 people go to jail each year for failing to pay public transit tickets. The relevant part of the ...

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 fractures in Vietnam mirrored divisions in Germany, with North Vietnam backed by the USSR-aligned East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and the capitalist ...

"There's no problem finding affordable accommodation, there are no traffic jams, there's no rush hour, and I've never had trouble finding a parking space," beams Anika Franze from behind her desk in ...

The museum apartment in Hellersdorf is the last remaining original "Plattenbau" from the GDR in Berlin.

35 years ago on November 9 an imprecise instruction led to the collapse of the border infrastructure surrounding West Berlin, as Berliners took to tearing down the wall in the days after the ...

By the end of June 1991, the Soviet Union withdrew all military nuclear components from the territory of the former German Democratic Republic.

The German Democratic Republic (GDR) established diplomatic relations with Mozambique in 1975, the year it gained independence, with the Federal Republic of Germany following suit in 1976. The… ...

The 38-year-old was born in East Berlin in the former German Democratic Republic and lived most of her life before and after the fall of the Wall in the same district of the capital. But she says ...