Refugees who poured into the country a decade ago fared better when they landed in the more prosperous West, an enduring ...

On Nov. 9, 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West for the first ...

Many East Germans are more sympathetic toward Moscow than their western compatriots, reflecting decades of Soviet ties and disillusionment since reunification.

The Berlin Wall, which divided the city into East and West, was opened for the first time since it was erected on 1989. This marked the beginning of the end for communist regimes in Eastern Europe and ...

For nearly a quarter-century, the Berlin Wall had cut off Communist-ruled East Germany from democratic West Germany and most of the rest of Europe. That changed when the wall was opened Nov. 9, 1989 — ...

A trip by several members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to Sochi, Russia on November 14 and 15 has ...

THE LATE summer sun is beating down on a merry crowd assembled in Neustadt an der Orla, a small town in the east German state of Thuringia. As children slurp ice cream and Thuringian Bratwürste warm ...

BERLIN — An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided ...

BERLIN (AP) — An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border crossing in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BERLIN (AP) — An 80-year-old former officer ...