Germany today celebrates the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the end of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We’ll be celebrating the moment in our family, too, it having made it possible for me ...
A few weeks ago, I visited Chantilly, Va., to check out what might just be the best kept secret in the simulator space. So what is GOLFZON’s new GDR MAX all about and why should you care? I’m glad you ...
Panty hose, that's only one of the things political prisoners in the German Democratic Republic had to manufacture. A new study has provided an insight into the lives of forced laborers who - ...
The reaction among officials in Germany to his bestselling novel has been hostile. As Mayfly Season is published in the UK, its author explains why ...
From 1976 through 1990, the building in East Berlin served as a symbol of the communist state's power. The "People's Palace" ...
The GDR Museum in Berlin is actually two museums in one. And these two parts, both devoted to everyday life in the German Democratic Republic, subtly contradict one another. That might not have been ...
In 2017, 'Goodbye Lenin' was screened in Berlin living rooms "ostalgically" designed to look like those in the GDR. Photo: DPA Nearing the 30 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we ...
Victims and heirs of East German looted art have been offered fresh hope that their belongings will be returned, Deutsche Welle reports. Recent high-profile restitution cases, such as the the ...
Citizens of former East Germany were subjected to communist dictators, an all-imposing secret police and material shortages. Yet these issues became the butt of many knee-slapping jokes. These ...
A few weeks ago, I visited Chantilly, Va., to check out what might just be the best kept secret in the simulator space. So what is GOLFZON’s new GDR MAX all about and why should you care? I’m glad you ...