INEVITABLY, all other issues in West Germany are dominated by the prospects for the Federal election which takes place the middle of this month, the fifth since the German Federal Republic came ...

Hungry for office—they have not won a single federal election since the West German Republic was established in 1949—the Socialists had turned, logically enough, to the man whom a recent ...

Today’s West Germans are prosperous as Germans have never been before. From the ashes of 1945, West Germany has grown into the world’s second greatest trading power (after the U.S.).

Rather, the East German “Democratic” Republic was dissolved, and its people and its territories joined the West German Federal Republic. The practicalities were unequal, too.

Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration By Norbert Frei Translated by Joel Golb (Columbia University Press, 365 pp., $35)In this grim account of the formative ...

In 1952, communist East Germany closed its borders to the West. In 1961, the German Democratic Republic, as it was then known, erected a wall through the center of Berlin to keep its citizens from ...

West Germany is a democratic republic. East Germany is a communist country aligned with the Soviet Union. 1949-1961 - More than 2.7 million East Germans escape to the West.

Toralf Staud, a German journalist who closely follows right-wing extremism, says some people in the former East Germany "still do not look at the Federal Republic of Germany as their country.

They were caught and jailed, until West Germany, or the Federal Republic of Germany, paid money so they could leave. These friends encouraged my parents to leave the GDR behind.

FOR the past year or so West Germany has been marking time in a political sense. After the controversy over Dr. Adenauer’s retirement from the chancellorship and the choice of a successor, the ...