According to “Der Spiegel” European leaders meeting in Strasbourg effectively decided on the road map to advance towards the monetary unit and also supported the plan for German unification ...

For example, our statistical maps. Some show East Germany’s borders so clearly, they look as if they were created before the Wall fell in 1989. What a contrast to the reunified Germany we’ve ...

Report shows archive footage of the Berlin Wall. Map of East and West Germany. Archive footage of the building of the Berlin Wall. Newspaper headlines about people escaping from East Germany to ...

In the build up to war, the southern confederate German states voluntarily joined the Prussian-controlled Northern German Confederation. Germany was now unified. The Franco-Prussian war was ended ...

The unification of Germany was as bold as it was risky. After the collapse of the Berlin Wall, political heavyweights including former Chancellor Helmut Kohl pushed hard to merge two very different ...

The wars of German unification led to the establishment of Germany in 1871. However, the founding of the new state wasn’t declared ... ‘Washington is targeting the Roman Catholic Church in a ...

A quarter century after Berlin’s infamous wall fell, Germany has summarised its unification to date as a political success but an economic work in progress. An official study into the mammoth ...