East Germany is a far-right stronghold — and economic concerns helped make it happen
The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before the federal election ...
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EAST GERMANY: The Devil’s General
Even after the German armies capitulated in World War II, a fanatic Wehrmacht general, commanding a force of last-ditch Nazis, held out against the Russians in a Bohemian mountain redoubt.
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A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...
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Bowie’s Berlin: Up against the wall
When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of geopolitical turmoil, cleft in two physically and politically by 168km (104 ...
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Europe Wasn’t Built to Be Like This
Germany names “the global security ... and some three million East Germans crossed into West Berlin when the wall fell on Nov. 9. The ruptures of 1989 hastened the end of the Cold War, opening ...
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How did East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, operate?
At its former headquarters in Berlin, we show you how the Stasi managed to penetrate deep into the private lives of GDR citizens.
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How I spent a long weekend in Berlin exploring its turbulent past and vibrant present
November 9, 1989 sitting watching TV as the Berlin Wall was breached and destroyed under cover of night. I was glued to the ...