The Soviet Union broke up without a civil war, thank God, says Yevgeny Roizman, 54, a historian and mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia's third-largest city, which borders Siberia... READ MORE›
East Germany, thought to have had the strongest economy of any European Communist country, turned out to be bankrupt... READ MORE›
Helmut Kohl, the chancellor who presided over both German reunification and the creation of the eurozone, has died aged 87... READ MORE›
Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union's dissolution at the end of the year... READ MORE›
In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›
As germany marks fall of the berlin wall gorbachev warns of new cold war... READ MORE›
For decades, Mr. Schmidt was one of West Germany's most popular politicians... READ MORE›
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›
Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the architect of Germany's reunification, died on Friday aged 87, his party said... READ MORE›
Ms Pazsitka said she spent the last 11 years in Dusseldorf, previously living in several other cities in west Germany, according to police... READ MORE›
Gorbachev may well have a rose-tinted view of the Soviet Union, but many in Russia feel the same... READ MORE›
Mr J ger, now 71, is renowned in Germany for being the man who opened the Berlin Wall ... READ MORE›
The Berlin Wall was East Germany's way of keeping East Germans from fleeing into the West... READ MORE›
It's worth pointing out that at this time it wasn't just left-wingers like Wilson who supported improved relations with the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
Helmut Kohl was a great German and a great European... READ MORE›
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›
Fuest's logic is simple Emergency loans to Greece are not really loans... READ MORE›
An unsparing 1985 address to the Bonn Parliament on the 40th anniversary of Germany's surrender in World War II earned him respect abroad... READ MORE›
It opened the border to Austria and let them through on their way to West Germany... READ MORE›
Watch our 90 second video above to find out more about Russia's military hardware... READ MORE›
Mr. Schmidt and West Germany in the mid-'70s were strongly pro-American... READ MORE›
2 billion euros on rehabilitation payments, according to a 2013 government report examining the progress made in redressing East Germany's wrongs... READ MORE›
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›
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›
In an interview on the weekly Die Zeit website, Walter Kohl criticised the lack of national funeral services, which were refused by his stepmother Maike Kohl-Richter... READ MORE›
I don't like Ossies and can't stand being around them, said west Berlin native Monika Bruecker... READ MORE›
Roland Holschneider DRESDEN, Germany -- Some world leaders may find it challenging to direct one country... READ MORE›
An earlier version said in reference to Angela Merkel, whom Kohl promoted but turned against after an expenses scandal in 1999 ... READ MORE›
As years go by our citizens get firmer in their opinion that the Soviet Union could have been saved... READ MORE›
It was in May 1949 that the republics of Germany were founded... READ MORE›
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