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 ...

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 ...

A lifelong fascination with puppets lead Monica Leo to East Germany in the 1980s, where she learned maybe we're not so different after all. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy.

Exhibition looks at vacationing in East Germany ... 2023, shows visitors what travel was like for East Germans in the 1970s and 1980s. This article was originally written in German. ...

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.

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 ...

Allegations of East Germany doping, along with other Soviet satellite states, had increased dramatically throughout the 1980s. Here was confirmation the other side had been cheating all along ...

Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labour under Germany’s communist dictatorship, in a move ...