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GERMANY REUNIFIED 26 YEARS AGO, BUT SOME DIVISIONS ARE STILL STRONG
Eastern Germany has taken in far fewer refugees than western Germany... READ MORE›
BERLINS DIGITAL EXILES: WHERE TECH ACTIVISTS GO TO ESCAPE THE NSA
Activist Sarah Harrison, who spent four months assisting whistleblower Edward Snowden, has moved to Berlin... READ MORE›
EUROPE WILL FIND WAY TO KEEP BRITAIN IN EU SAYS GERMAN MINISTER
West Berlin chauvinism, lording it over the humiliated East, hastened the destruction of many East Germany landmarks that, also unpredictably, are now prized as architecturally significant and historically irreplaceable... READ MORE›
BERLIN MARKET ATTACK MARS SQUARE WHERE THREE ERAS COEXIST
My friend Uli Kempendorff, who grew up in East Berlin, emailed me on Monday night... READ MORE›
NINE SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
An East Berlin policeman adds bricks to heighten the Berlin Wall to 15 feet Oct... READ MORE›
HELMUT KOHL: LEADER WHO UNITED EUROPE AS WELL AS GERMANY
Both reasoned that Europe would only be safe and secure if its two leading powers and its most frequent antagonists, France and Germany, worked in tandem... READ MORE›
EUROPE WILL FIND WAY TO KEEP BRITAIN IN EU SAYS GERMAN MINISTER
West Berlin chauvinism, lording it over the humiliated East, hastened the destruction of many East Germany landmarks that, also unpredictably, are now prized as architecturally significant and historically irreplaceable... READ MORE›
THE SPIES WHO LOVED ME: MY DAD, THE STASI AGENT
He was locked away for three years after 10 informants betrayed him to the Stasi, East Germany's feared secret service... READ MORE›
FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: THE GUARD WHO OPENED THE GATE - AND MADE HISTORY
Mr J ger, now 71, is renowned in Germany for being the man who opened the Berlin Wall ... READ MORE›
FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: GOOGLE COMMEMORATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY WITH VIDEO DOODLE
The Berlin Wall was East Germany's way of keeping East Germans from fleeing into the West... READ MORE›
GNTER SCHABOWSKI WHOSE GAFFE HELPED BURST THE BERLIN WALL DIES AT 86
Within hours, thousands of East Germans were thronging the checkpoints to West Berlin, demanding to be allowed to cross... READ MORE›
GERMANS SEE ALMOST NO PROGRESS ON EAST-WEST UNITY IN THE PAST 7 YEARS STUDY SAYS
Eastern Germany still lags behind the western parts of the country in terms of its economic performance and unemployment rates, despite continuous financial assistance since reunification... READ MORE›
SOME LEADERS LOVE BORDER WALLS, BUT DO THEY WORK?
East Berlin 'cut off from the world' The Berlin Wall wasn't built to collect taxes or to stop invaders, but to keep people in... READ MORE›
GERMANS HAVE BEEN REFUGEES BEFORE - THEY SEE THEMSELVES IN THESE SYRIANS
It opened the border to Austria and let them through on their way to West Germany... READ MORE›
HELMUT SCHMIDT DIES; WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR WAS TRANSFORMATIVE LEADER
Mr. Schmidt and West Germany in the mid-'70s were strongly pro-American... READ MORE›
STASI VICTIMS STILL IN TRAUMA AS GERMANY CHEERS 25 YEARS SINCE WALL FELL
2 billion euros on rehabilitation payments, according to a 2013 government report examining the progress made in redressing East Germany's wrongs... READ MORE›
WERNER STILLER, EAST GERMAN SPY AND DEFECTOR, DIES AT 69
The defection roiled the spy agency 17 of its agents were convicted in the West and at least 15 were called back to East Germany... READ MORE›
EGON BAHR WHO LAID GROUNDWORK FOR GERMAN REUNIFICATION DIES AT 93
Two years later, in a controversial speech, Mr. Bahr articulated his concept of change through contact in dealing with East Germany and the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
WEST BERLIN RECALLS 'ISLAND' OF FREEDOM THAT VANISHED WITH WALL
I don't like Ossies and can't stand being around them, said west Berlin native Monika Bruecker... READ MORE›
GUENTER SCHABOWSKI, E. GERMAN WHO ANNOUNCED BERLIN WALL OPENING, DIES
Guenter Schabowski, who announced the opening of the Berlin Wall, in 1989... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | GERMANY'S 'CHANCELLOR OF REUNIFICATION' LEFT BEHIND A LASTING, AND YET UNFINISHED LEGACY
Roland Holschneider DRESDEN, Germany -- Some world leaders may find it challenging to direct one country... READ MORE›
FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL'S POLICY BOOKLET FEATURES COLD WAR-ERA MAP OF DIVIDED GERMANY
In what has proven to be an embarrassing design gaffe, a map of Europe displaying a fragmented Germany was included in policy literature for Francois Fillon... READ MORE›
FOOTAGE SHOWS MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC CELEBRATING THE FIRST STAGES OF THE DEMOLITION OF THE BERLIN WALL ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNISED EVENTS OF THE COLD WAR
It was in May 1949 that the republics of Germany were founded... READ MORE›
25 YEARS SINCE THE END OF THE BERLIN WALL
An East Berlin citizen embraces a West Berlin woman after the fall of the wall... READ MORE›
GERMAN COURT RULES FACEBOOK MAY BLOCK PSEUDONYMS
Facebook may prevent its users from using fake names, a German court said on Thursday, overturning a previous order from the Hamburg data protection authority... READ MORE›
MERKEL, VISITING EX-STASI JAIL, DEFENDS FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY
Monika Gruetters, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and director Hubertus Knabe visit a former Stasi prison in Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen in Berlin, Germany, August 11, 2017... READ MORE›
SCHABOWSKI, MAN WHO ACCIDENTALLY SPILLED NEWS OF BERLIN WALL OPENING, DIES
Guenther Schabowski, the former senior East German Communist Party official who accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall, has died at the age... READ MORE›
REFUGEES ARE WELCOMED BY VAST MAJORITY OF GERMANS
Gauck, a former pastor and human rights campaigner in communist East Germany, has held the office with its ceremonial duties and limited executive powers since March 2012... READ MORE›
MARGOT HONECKER, UNREPENTANT WIDOW OF EAST GERMANY'S LAST LEADER, DIES AT 89
During the early 1950s, she had an affair with Erich Honecker, a leading Communist Party official who was married at the time... READ MORE›