Germany’s historical Drang nach Osten— push toward the East —has more often than not involved expansion and conquest at its neighbors’ expense. Now West Germany is looking eastward again ...

Up front. Copilot Captain George Anthony Jordan, 37, had discovered the flight error, and was wheeling the plane around in a ponderous effort to make it back to the West German border 22 miles away.

Even after almost 35 years when the so-called German Reunification which was, in reality, a bit more like an Anschluss wherein West-Germany simply took over East-Germany occurred, a divided ...

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.

Weeks after Germany’s new center-right government began imposing checks on its border with Poland and turning back some ...

It sheds light on the realities of life for women in former East and West Germany.Were women in communist East Germany truly more emancipated than women in capitalist West Germany? Clara Marz ...

A former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, has been sentenced to 10 years for the murder of a Polish man at a border crossing in Berlin in 1974.

It was Bonn that halted the negotiations, seeking a “time of reflection” on opening the East-West German border.

BERLIN (AP) — An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border ...

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.