Until recently, West Germany was largely content to let the U.S. and other NATO allies call the tune on East-West policy. Of late a militant, assertive new spirit has risen east of the Rhine.

In West Germany itself, this view is accepted in some quarters, mostly because it is a fact of present European life that the Russians cannot be moved out of East Germany, except by war ...

Reporting from Dresden, Germany — Ingolf Koecher and his wife, Bettina, have marched in 120 anti-Islam rallies in the former East German city of Dresden during the last four years. The retired ...

But that does not mean the former East and West Germany are on equal economic footing today. Despite substantial improvements in recent decades, the former East Germany continues to trail the former ...

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.

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 ...

Most Germans believe those living in parts of the country once separated by the Iron Curtain have little in common. Six in ten Germans believe the differences between people in the former East and ...