Although no one could have predicted the extraordinary events that rocked East Germany in the second half of 1989, the Bush administration was slow to react when they occured. During the first ...

Communist economic blueprints under the new seven-year plan point plainly to East Germany’s assigned role as the industrial heart of the satellite bloc: ¶ On the Baltic coast at Warnemünde ...

In the years following reunification, depictions of life in East Germany were relatively rare in German popular culture. The history was still too unsettled to fit easily into movies and TV shows. But ...

A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...