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 ...

I n 1980s East Germany, there was a group of independent fashion designers, photographers, models and stylists who refused to play along with the socialist regime’s excessive egalitarianism ...

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.

Similarities can be drawn between the Russian doping scandal and the systematic state-sponsored drug programs seen in East Germany during the 1980s, a leading expert says.

From the late 1960s until the late 1980s, East Germany, a country of fewer than 17 million people, kept pace in the Olympic medal chase with the United States and the Soviet Union with systematic ...

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