East Germany’s leadership had already sealed off the country ... Egon Krenz, who had just assumed power weeks, purged much of ...

In the charts below, we see that eastern Germany’s population is not only older on average than that of the west, but it has fallen significantly since reunification — from 16mn in 1990 to 12.6mn in ...

The pair were elected by members of the post-communist party at a national ... was still "the force of solidarity" in Germany ...

German police on Tuesday arrested eight suspected members of a right-wing extremist group that had trained for what they ...

Berlin, Germany ... Germany's communist regime. The fall of the Wall on November 9, 1989, symbolized freedom and inspired ...

Evelyn Zupke, federal commissioner for victims of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) dictatorship — which founded and ruled the former communist East Germany — said Ikea's commitment ...

Ikea is not alone in the matter, as East Germany was a hotspot for cheap labor under the communist regime, which many companies capitalized on. The company is now voluntarily paying €6 million ...

While East Germany is struggling just to keep its trade with the West from falling, West Germany is having no trouble finding ways of increasing its trade with the East. In the last decade ...

A high-level delegation of Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security, led by Minister General Luong Tam Quang, paid working ...