It's not a lakeside villa or a downtown condominium - it's an unassuming property nestled in a forest near Pasewalk, a German town west of the Polish border, that Heinz Fuhrmann wants to sell for €1 ...

People often write about the mixer, "It runs and runs and runs." This comment is likely a reference to the well-known ...

They were the first babies of newly reunified Germany. Some were born in a vanished state, East German communist symbols stamped in their birth certificates. Others shortly after German reunification, ...

The morning after the Berlin Wall came crashing down in November 1989, nine-year-old Thomas Töpfer was one of the few East German kids who turned up for school. He found his teacher in tears and half ...

Peter Keup can still remember how it felt to hold deutsche marks in his hand. “It was special to even touch this money,” he recalls. “It felt solid. The East German mark was thinner, flimsier.” As a ...

An East German sprinter who was cut open by Stasi surgeons after she tried to defect, has spoken of her brave escape and fight for justice. As a 23-year-old Ines Geipel had been destined for Soviet ...

Nostalgia for the East — or ostalgie, a portmanteau combining the words ost (‘east’) and nostalgie (‘nostalgia’) — has taken hold in contemporary, unified Germany. A symbol of the former East Germany, ...

Rolling into Germany with salvage crews and empty freight cars, the Soviet conquerors of 1945 carted off everything of value. To Mother Russia went East Germany’s ...

Markus Wolf, who outwitted the West as communist East Germany’s long-serving spymaster, has died. He was 83. Wolf passed away early Thursday morning in his apartment in Berlin, his step-daughter ...

The story of Bayern Munich’s most improbable Bundesliga challenger begins in earnest behind the Berlin Wall. FC Union Berlin now stands tall atop the German league, level on points with Bayern and ...

The Leipziger Strasse in central Berlin looks like almost any another main traffic artery in the world these days. It’s four lanes in each direction, and high rise buildings with nondescript shops on ...