Germany commemorates the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. Today, the country's memory culture has become one enshrined in ...

There is a growing shortage of food and consumer goods in East Germany, an increasing and alarming drain on its slender resources of manpower, and an atmosphere of vocal discontent. For obvious ...

The Russian president has expressed pride in his record as a communist KGB officer in Dresden in the 1980s. His Stasi pass ... St Petersburg), was posted to East Germany in 1985, aged 33.