East Germany, officially known as ... played a role in the downfall of East Germany and why it ultimately ruined the nation’s economy.In the 1970s and 1980s, East Germany attempted to develop ...

Paranoia permeates the love story at the heart of the 1980s period piece "Barbara," and no wonder: East German secret police have so many civilian spies reporting to them that when big-city doctor ...

By the middle of the 1980s, East Germany had a legitimate claim to being among the most queer-friendly states on earth, far outpacing conservative West Germany. But social and economic progress ...

If you purchased anything from Ikea back in the 1980s, ... Because back in 2012, Ikea admitted that it had used East German prisoners as slave labor to make some of the company’s products.

DRESDEN, Germany — Meticulous. Reticent. Clever, but never showy about it. Ever the watcher. It was 1989. The young Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was a KGB officer in the then-East German city of ...

In the 1980s, a thirst for caffeine caused an unusual global collaboration. Coffee-loving East Germans were left without after a crop failure in the world’s biggest exporter of the drink, Brazil.

Throughout the 1980s, Scholz made at least nine trips to the DDR, according to the records, including a 1986 visit to Krenz, who succeeded Honecker as East Germany’s leader shortly before the fall of ...