West Germany was a capitalist democracy with a prosperous economy, while East Germany was a communist country with a very poor economy. The border between East and West Germany shut in 1952 ...

The division between Germany’s East and West did not disappear with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. An invisible “wall” still runs across the country when key demographic indicators are mapped.

They were crossing the border from Hungary, where the regime had torn gaping holes in the Iron Curtain that separated East from West. Meanwhile at home in East Germany, for those protesters who ...

A German holidaymaker visiting the Czech Republic with his family was arrested because his name remained on a police list, ...

The opening of the Berlin Wall was one of the most dramatic events of 1989. For 28 years, it stood as a symbol of both the division of Europe and the hardline regime of Erich Honecker. Although no ...

BERLIN, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Germany has ... on migration and cross-border crime after a surge of arrivals, especially from people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East. The controls primarily ...

When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, ...

"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. Clara Marz believes there ...

Germany has extended temporary border controls for six months and informed the European Union, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday (February 12, 2025) as he tries to show his government is ...