"Women in Divided Germany" is the title of an exhibition 35 years after reunification. It sheds light on the realities of life for women in former East and West Germany.Were women in communist ...

The throb of unrest in East Germany can be accurately measured by the flow of refugees to the West. For about a year the number of East Germans seeking sanctuary was a fairly steady 6,500 a month.

1968 Grenoble: East German women go 1-2-4 led by defending champion Ortrun Enderlein, but all three women are ejected for illegally heating their runners. The third-fastest woman, Italy’s Erika ...

The discovery, made by architect Mark Aretz, revealed a small one-bedroom apartment evidently abandoned quickly by its occupants as the Communist East German state disintegrated in 1989 ...

At the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics, the East German women's swim team won eleven of thirteen events. This would have been an astonishing feat for any country; it was all the more so for a small ...