After World War II, the Soviet Union transformed their occupied zone in Germany into the German Democratic Republic. One of the many communist states in the Eastern Bloc, East Germany developed a ...

Residential tower blocks made of prefabricated concrete slabs were built in many parts of the world during the second half of the 20th century, but this type of building was particularly popular in ...

The former East German Ministry for State Security’s archives show the struggles for freedom leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago and the life of East German citizens during the ...

East Germany in 1980, in the excellent drama “Barbara,” is a country of browns and dingy yellows. The wall through the divided city of Berlin is still standing, and it is still keeping its people “in.

Imagine a world where soccer cleats were also political tools. Stadiums were battlegrounds for Cold War ideologies. Young athletes like Lutz Eigendorf found themselves caught in East Germany’s ...

Three thousand miles from his New York City home, as the August dawn broke over the Austrian landscape, 24-year-old Army draftee Stephen Wechsler took off his shoes, waded into the Danube River, and ...