The geographical division through the middle of Germany may have vanished ... the geographical division parting East and West until 1990 may have vanished from world maps — but not so much ...

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They dubbed her a "Cold warrior" who was over-anxious about the consequences of German reunification. Thirty years on, the old East-West divide remains at play. In the third and final volume of ...

If untouched nature is good for tourism, so is a bit of old communist aura. On Lake Drewitz, two hours north of Berlin, a West German businessman last year reopened a hunting lodge used by East ...

Tennis courts plotted on a map of Germany shows the 'phantom ... AFP This week we get into the residual impacts of Germany's old East-West border, how a train platform used to send off prisoners ...

In 1953, swimming against the historical tide, the 16-year-old Biermann moved, alone, from West Germany to the East, just as thousands were fleeing in the other direction in search of a better life.

You only have to look at a map of Germany to see where much of its support comes from. Almost all of the old East Germany ... wages in the east are still lower than the west.

FULDA, Germany - Not much of the old East-West German border is left, but Brig. Gen. Fred Maiocco remembered what he saw in the fall of 1989. It's been almost thirty years since he was a ...

Some were born in a vanished state, East German communist symbols stamped in their birth certificates. Others shortly after German reunification, exactly 30 years ago. They are as old as modern ...