| 单词 | East German |
| 例句 | By the next morning, East German and Russian technicians had pushed all the way through to the eastern end of the tunnel itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Another informant, a lawyer for the East German Ministry of Posts and Communications, secretly copied information about Soviet cables to paper cards, which he then taped to his backside, underneath his pants. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When people began chipping away at the Berlin Wall, more joined in—including the very East German border guards who were supposed to protect it. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Sure. Like the way the East German Olympic teams used to ‘bulk up,’ Kevin.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “Right. The East German hit her in the eye going over the first hurdle. Betty finished fourth in her heat and didn’t qualify to go on.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z East German citizens didn't wait around to find out. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The East German government referred to the structure as the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart"; it was bordered by minefields and a no-man's-land known as the "death strip." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She was like an East German swimmer at a local competition. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z East Germans snuck out this "back door" by the thousands, before the Stasi had time to prevent their departure. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Working methodically—and filming everything with movie cameras—the Soviets and East Germans finally reached the halfway point of the tunnel, where Harvey had set up a barrier of barbed wire and sandbags. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Because the Agency had no high-level agents in East Germany, Rolph's cable was America's only official source of information about the impending collapse of the East German communist state. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally, the hobnailed boots of East German soldiers, patrolling the street above, echoed overhead. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z East German guards kept watch over random checkpoints, demanding identity papers for anyone wishing to pass through. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Beginning that very month, Harvey's wiretap commenced recording thousands of classified conversations among Soviet and East German military officials. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Harvey's agents managed to cultivate informants working inside the East German telecommunications offices, in order to find out which cables were used directly by the Soviet army and secret services. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Late at night on August 13, 1961, East German police and military units flooded the streets of Berlin's Eastern sector. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Had the East German government suddenly put an end to the most notorious symbol of the Cold War in Europe? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On November 9, an East German government spokesman named Gunter Schabowski gave a press conference at which he stated that travel restrictions between East and West Germany would be eased. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At the opposite end of the bridge, Francis Gary Powers was shackled to two East German guards and accompanied by a Soviet colonel. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At close range, here in Paris, with the conceit of a diplomatic summit, Mr. Browne’s uniformity owed less to the United States as Camelot than to the blunt aesthetic of an East German housing block. Fashion Review: In Paris, the Wimp Effect Takes Hold 2010-06-29T22:42:00Z In the months that followed, several East German escapees perished in no man's land, a killing ground of landmines and barbed wire. October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z Published as a book, War Primer 2 is a powerful rereading of Brecht's East German original in the light of recent history. Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers 2013-04-17T17:23:17Z Participants who disliked reunification performed the worst, believing that formerly East German cities were much farther away from formerly West German cities than they really were. Do Walls Change How We Think? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z That was endearing, until he started slagging off the French, the East Germans, and the parents of Madeleine McCann – at which points, spoof Teutonic ruthlessness becomes an excuse for the comedy of cheap outrage. Henning Wehn ? review 2011-03-04T18:06:05Z Yet one of the most remarkable things about this multigenerational saga of an East German family before and after the demise of Communism is how contemporary and, well, Western it seems. Books of The Times: ‘In Times of Fading Light’ Spans Generations in Germany 2013-08-13T19:37:43Z He’s puzzled by the reappearance at an East German lake of the elegant Wolfgang, this time as the director of Walter’s university. Crossing Abbey Road: It’s More Dangerous Than You Might Think 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Researchers undertake the massive task of recreating millions of torn-up records that the East German secret police hoped to destroy. Piecing Together the History of Stasi Spying 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z There was a pointed quality to the movie being shown in the Kino International, the old East German, silver-curtained theater where high-ranking members of the GDR used to gather for screenings. 'Citizenfour's' Berlin premiere puts new spin on Edward Snowden 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Wolf's critics argued that she should have published it before the demise of the East German state became imminent. Christa Wolf wins Thomas Mann literature prize 2010-10-25T16:56:00Z The documentation could therefore be a bit bland, avoiding overt blame, but it nevertheless made clear that East German soldiers were willing, sometimes even eager, to kill their countrymen on behalf of a political system. Where Berlin’s infamous wall once stood, humans and nature now flourish 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z This is a not a fun recommendation, but go to Hohenschönhausen prison, where the East German secret police interrogated dissidents, many of them writers. Read Your Way Through Berlin 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Eight months later, on Nov. 9, East German leader Egon Krenz announced the opening of a crossing point between East and West Germany. How Robert Mapplethorpe went from America's pariah to America's sweetheart 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Lutz Riemann was an East German actor known for playing a TV policeman. Piecing Together the History of Stasi Spying 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z It says there was something good about East German life, something worth praising, saving, and even serving to people today. Back in the GDR: Berlin's East Germany museum 2013-03-13T12:59:21Z I was stalked by the Stasi — the East German secret police — here. In Berlin, it’s a whole new city, but the Wall’s traces remain It was 30 years ago this winter that 6,000 East Germans reclaimed the summit for the people. 10 of Europe’s best rural train journeys 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z He portrays an East German philosophy student who undergoes a botched gender reassignment surgery. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The story of the unveiling of an East German spy operation, it was notable mostly for the introduction of Smiley and his faithless wife, Ann. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z It was banned by the East German government, which feared that the novel could cause "ideological disorientation." Christa Wolf wins Thomas Mann literature prize 2010-10-25T16:56:00Z The spoiled son of a high-ranking East German official, Wolf rejects his family’s advantages in the socialist paradise and works as a youth counselor in the basement of a church. With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z “A feeling of liberty, opportunities to travel, all contributed to the well-being of East Germans,” he told me. Do Walls Change How We Think? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z With “In the Aisles,” which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, German director Thomas Stuber seeks to dramatize the uncertainty that many East German workers still face in a reunited Germany. Film about East German workers highlights united Germany's... 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Johnson’s story is about a retired East German official living near the notorious Hohenschönhausen prison. The $9,000 short story: Adam Johnson’s tale is no ordinary book 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z East Germans had been fed a false narrative about World War II. They were led to believe that East Germany had resisted Hitler. ‘The Chancellor’ Portrays Angela Merkel as a Droll Source of Sanity in a Mad World 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z The flamboyant armor of Japanese warriors, theatrical religious paintings, wild choreographies full of untrained dancers, a painter of the Harlem Renaissance, street signage reconsidered and an old East German guardhouse repurposed as art installation site. Datebook: Baroque works, samurai armor, amateur dancing, skid row arts 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Starting in the 1960s, the Stasi, the East German secret police, recruited many of the grown-up progeny as spies, sending them to Norway to be reunited with unsuspecting families. ‘Two Lives’: A woman’s secret past threatens her happy home 2014-03-20T21:36:13Z "We were a part of that scene, have explored its history and have something to say about it," he said, adding that East German reality is often misrepresented in various media. Archive immortalizes East German Punk rock scene 2011-07-20T11:09:05Z The building later became an East German school and was finally closed in 1996. In this fascinating German museum on the Kennedys, we can all be Berliners 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Thousands of people escaped the harsh East German government by fleeing to West Berlin. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation It was like a cottage version of “The Americans”: an East German spy, spurred by Ronald Reagan’s “evil empire” speech, recruits her nephew and sends him on an absurdly dangerous undercover mission into West Germany. The 30 Best International TV Shows of the Decade 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The story about an East German singer who suffered a botched sex-change operation is something of a paean to misfits and losers, set to rock music. Keeping You Entertained (and on Your Toes) 2010-08-27T22:59:00Z As Hedwig, a transgender East German singer, Harris sauntered around the stage in his giant blonde wig, then ventured into the crowd, giving a lap dance to Sting and licking Jackson’s glasses. Tony night had humor, music and a hopping host 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Every Sunday the East German Air Force made sonic booms to remind us of how close they were. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z That wall began quietly, on an April Sunday morning in 1961, with barbed wire unrolled through unsuspecting streets by East German forces. The Walls Before Trump’s Wall 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z East German factories often were overstaffed and inefficient, and survived the transition to a market economy only by making draconian job cuts — if they survived at all. This German Village is a Town Based on Time 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z And the Cold War bug is contagious: In June, Sundance TV will air “Deutschland 83,” a German television series about an East German spy working undercover in West Germany in the 1980s. Season 3 Finale of ‘The Americans’: More Secrets, Lies and Torture 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z In 1953, Bertolt Brecht wrote a poem, “The Solution,” in which he satirized the East German government, wondering whether it should “dissolve the people and / Elect another?” 2019 Oscar Nominations and Predictions (And Who Should Have Made the List) 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z In June an uprising of about one million East Germans had been brutally suppressed by a regime Brecht had fought for, and continued to defend publicly. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Most East German photography at the time, Mahler recalled, was “sugar-coated” propaganda. Ute Mahler’s Portraits of Life Behind the Wall 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z On Mr. Masur’s appointment to the Philharmonic, some news organizations in the West and the former East Bloc charged that East German officials had covered it up to protect a favorite son. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z This time, the action unreels not in an East German dacha but in a London hospital. Crossing Abbey Road: It’s More Dangerous Than You Might Think 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z In the center is an image of Lenin, and there are two doves, symbolizing peace — both common iconographical elements in East German monuments, Mr. Melching said. Art for East Germany’s Secret Police Is for Sale at Art Basel Miami Beach 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Sometimes under threat from the East German authorities, the theater staged left-leaning, politically subversive plays that were some of the first to incorporate multimedia, like film, onstage. Plans for Volksbühne Theater Cause Worry About Berlin’s Artistic Direction 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z The Cold War spy thriller series “Deutschland 83,” which follows the exploits of an East German spy in West Germany, originally aired in 2015. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Heathers’ and ‘Citizen Kane’ 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Much more pertinent are figures from each of the three great East German Junker families, with their palatial residences and thousands of feudally worked acres. Books of The Times: ?Forgotten Land? by Max Egremont - Review 2011-12-28T22:10:01Z Dercon, a former director of museums including Tate Modern in London, resigned after protests over his decision to refocus the former East German playhouse on visiting international productions. In Europe’s Theaters, Outsiders Tread a Tricky Path 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Masur was a key figure who promoted peace during the civil rights movement in the East German city of Leipzig that helped lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Legendary conductor Masur hospitalized in Paris 2012-04-27T13:46:08Z Of course, there's an easy answer: Fallada was asked to produce the book by an East German propaganda minister. Reading group: Is Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin too crude for comfort? 2013-03-20T09:22:00Z To increase the rigors of throwback privation, he chose an ancient, heavy East German bicycle, the MIFA. Destinations Await in the Summer’s Best Travel Books 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z In 1972, Mr. Masur was at the wheel when his car struck another on an East German highway; his second wife, Irmgard, and the two occupants of the other car were all killed. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z But the odds were indeed heavy, as the frequent enforcer of them was the Stasi, the secret police widely and justifiably feared at every level of East German society. Book review: ‘Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature,’ by Robert Darnton There’s also an installation of East German and Soviet Union spy equipment. The Cold War as a museum: At the Wende, one man's 100,000-piece collection finds a new home 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z But remember, Aufbau was an East German publisher and there was censorship back then. Publisher dusts off missing chapter in Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-03-09T19:08:23Z They were East German, with an iron grip at the ankle and the name of the factory woven into the sole. Lenin, mum and me – my communist childhood 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z The scene seems innocent enough — just two men gossiping about a new colleague — but that’s only because it has yet to be revealed that Klaus works for the Stasi, the East German secret police. Movie Review: ‘Barbara,’ Directed by Christian Petzold 2012-12-20T21:52:52Z The first is Ernst Jürgen, who uses his old contacts from the Stasi, the East German secret police, to locate some pieces of Martin's identikit. Unknown Review: Liam Neeson Gets Re-Taken 2011-02-19T02:45:00Z After all, Wolf had commanded respect among functionaries of the East German regime and enjoyed privileges as a result. Christa Wolf wins Thomas Mann literature prize 2010-10-25T16:56:00Z In the summer of 1962, an East German woman suffering from a locked jaw arrived at a psychiatric clinic in Leipzig. Do Walls Change How We Think? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Acceptance rates for victims' claims vary between 50 percent to 67 percent in different former East German states. Stasi victims still in trauma as Germany cheers 25 years since wall fell 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Many other clubs in Berlin — including the iconic Berghain, located in a defunct East German power station — remain closed for now. Berlin Clubs Return With a Vengeance 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z From his camp in Bolivia, Wolf, an East German dissident turned political fugitive, runs an operation called the Sunlight Project, whose mission is to air the world’s dirty laundry. Review: Jonathan Franzen's Purity Examines Wealth and Identity 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z The idea wasn’t to keep West Berliners in; it was to keep East Berliners, and other East Germans, out. The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago It features old footage of an East German teacher instructing schoolchildren to set aside their prejudices about how rich and happy everyone is in West Germany. Fastest! Tallest! Marxist! The visual art of Phil Collins 2011-02-06T22:29:00Z He speaks to psychologists, visits prison programs where inmates are treated with kindness rather than brutality, and reads about the Stasi’s encouragement of East Germans to inform on their neighbors. Monica Lewinsky and the Shame Game 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Part of the larger Achtung Berlin film festival, the retrospective features eight films -- half British and American productions, half East German -- focusing on the clash between Communism and Capitalism that dominated the late 20th century. Film festival recalls Cold War Berlin, capital of spies 2010-04-16T17:57:00Z The times had changed, and the Great White Way was ready for, as Mitchell describes Hedwig, “an East German gender-bending punk rock singer with a botched sex change.” A millennial Hedwig? Darren Criss talks about a new generation rocking to this 'Angry Inch' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z But Dessau’s East German heritage is all too evident today in its drab appearance. Music Review: Kurt Weill Festival: One Man, Many Different Beats 2011-03-08T13:00:06Z Her East German husband, it seems, has been keeping secrets — lots of them. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z As we pass the Trabant museum, a couple of the little rattletrap East German cars, painted in kooky neon patterns, come tootling down the road. In Berlin, it’s a whole new city, but the Wall’s traces remain And, to an East German VIP, “Tell me, General, when is the communist government going to dissolve the people and elect another?” ‘Prussian Blue’: Philip Kerr’s crime fiction at its best 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Ninety minutes from Berlin is the provincial city of Cottbus, whose forbidding, 19th century-built penitentiary served as a prison for both the Nazis and the East Germans. Stasi victims still in trauma as Germany cheers 25 years since wall fell 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Within hours East Germans were dancing on the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate and other border crossings soon opened. East German officer who opened Berlin Wall wept moments later 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z They tossed stuff they didn’t want over the wall and let the East German soldiers on the other side haul it away. The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago The story of an East German family fleeing to the West in a home-made balloon is not, as she dismisses it, “apocryphal”: the briefest research reveals that it really happened, in 1979. Mapping history 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Like a fist poking through the Iron Curtain, the village of Klein Glienicke was an East German territory within West Berlin that was reachable only by a heavily patrolled footbridge. Heads Up: Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Berlin Wall 2011-05-27T18:55:11Z After he was caught by the East German secret police, Topf’s father escaped with his wife to Ludwigshafen, then in West Germany, where they founded a laundry. He Knows the Stars’ Dirty Laundry. Because He Washes It. 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z In another scene, Stasi officers beat a pregnant woman — just moments after some of the same agents engage in a bit of "Hogan's Heroes" slapstick, bumblingly trying to manufacture an East German rock star. 'Beyond the Horizon' healing wounds of a divided Germany with pop rock 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The fact that this powerful writer grew up in the communist German Democratic Republic will perhaps encourage some East German intellectuals to claim that the workers' state was a republic of scholars. What they're reading in Germany 2011-03-18T12:29:32Z It lies at the heart of “Red Love: The Story of an East German Family,” his searching and sensitive chronicle of three generations making the journey from euphoric hope to disillusionment to despair. Books of The Times: ‘Red Love,’ a Memoir of East Germany 2014-04-13T21:01:38Z She was a blonde East German would-be rock star, a divorced army wife — and a survivor of a botched sex-change operation. The “Hedwig” composer’s long road to Broadway 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z He remembers marital tensions among the Wagner clan and political anxieties about Friedrich being the first East German to work at Bayreuth. With Siegfried at last 2011-07-15T21:54:02Z In early 1989, an East German government report identified punk as the top problem among the country’s youth. Need Gifts for Readers? Check Out Our Holiday Book Suggestions 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The audience is fabulously diverse, where Berlin’s cosmopolitan and flamboyant mingle with old East German opera lovers. L.A. versus Berlin: Which is king of the classical world? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Many live inexpensively in rundown plattenbauten: the prefab concrete apartments that were a hallmark of East German architecture through the 1960s and ’70s. ‘New Berlin’ or Not, Leipzig Has New Life 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z And it remained completely unknown to most East Germans, even those sent to guard it. East German nuclear bunker could become tourist attraction 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Most of Ms. Siegel’s formal conceits — like conducting interviews using the antiquated recording equipment favored by the Stasi, the East German secret police — are well within the range of current commercial documentary practice. | 'DDR/DDR': Surveillance Culture of the East German Secret Police 2010-05-07T04:05:00Z She speaks fluent German and trained as a singer, so I’m thinking a cold war-era musical set in an East German spa town might be just the ticket. Which big-screen actors deserve a small-screen reinvention? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The East German industrial hub was said to have the worst air in the country — if not the continent. ‘New Berlin’ or Not, Leipzig Has New Life 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Not an adaptation of the Robert Harris alternative-history novel, but a patchy account of an East German musician as unhappy under communism as he is in the west. Ken Loach – all his films ranked! 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z East German officials wanted to stop this, and in 1961 they closed the border. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation Ms Sarotte also debunks the myth that the East Germans’ protest was bound to be peaceful. The German open 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z In the distinctly East German building, full of grays and browns, she said, “You are reminded of whose footsteps you are in.” Piecing Together the History of Stasi Spying 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z A former East German guardhouse dating back to the Cold War will be placed on the grounds of the former National Guard Armory in Culver City. Datebook: Baroque works, samurai armor, amateur dancing, skid row arts 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Located on the site of the demolished East German Parliament and conceived as Germany’s equivalent to the Louvre, the Humboldt Forum was originally scheduled to open in 2019, but ran into construction delays. A Long-Awaited Museum Opens, With Agony and Ivory 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Though Broadway will take away much of the original production’s intimacy, we still wouldn’t miss Harris in high heels and an East German accent for the world. 10 reasons we can’t wait for 2014 2013-12-23T12:43:00Z As a child, he loved Greek mythology, but his parents told him that, as an East German, he’d been unlikely to travel to Greece. Do Walls Change How We Think? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Ever wonder why East Germans had a proclivity for hanging out in public stark naked? 36 Hours in Berlin 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The room devoted to East Germany has pictures of smiling citizens, with no sense of Soviet repression and no reminder of the East German workers’ uprising of 1953, which was crushed by Russian tanks. ‘Russen & Deutsche,’ at Neues Museum in Berlin 2013-01-05T00:57:53Z He was furious about the decision, saying his prickly dealings with the Philharmonic reminded him of his earlier experiences with the East German secret police. Kurt Masur, conductor who was a unifying force in a divided Germany, dies at 88 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Soon, he told the assembled Cubans and Egyptians and East Germans and Mongolians and Vietnamese, Soviet citizens would enjoy products "considerably higher in quality than the best productions of capitalism". Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z There are also shots of Ms. Khan holding annotated copies of Mosaik, an East German satirical comic book with an anticapitalist bent and the occasional racist or anti-Semitic caricature, that she bought in Berlin. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z The year is 1988, and Saul is about to spend two weeks doing research in the German Democratic Republic; Jennifer intends the photo as a gift for his East German translator’s Beatles-obsessed sister. Review | In ‘The Man Who Saw Everything,’ Deborah Levy questions our notions of reality 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z An ingenious, counterintuitive look at the Cold War, the show features a hero who’s an East German border guard. ‘Deutschland 83’ and ‘Shkufim’ Are Among Exciting International Series 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z In some cases, the Stasi appropriated the identities of Lebensborn children and conferred them on East Germans trained in espionage before placing them with Norwegian families. Movie Review: In ‘Two Lives,’ a War Legacy Threatens a Norwegian Family 2014-02-28T00:16:38Z A recent retrospective run by Interfilm offered its own spin, combining shorts from the West Berlin days with those East German Super 8 movies into a single program. At Berlin's Interfilm, a modern movie confab under history's shadow 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z This is about an East German singer who has a botched sex-change operation and is left with an “angry inch” of flesh between her legs. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Then there’s Neil Patrick Harris, nominated for “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” as an East German rock diva unencumbered by gender or sartorial restraint. Michael Schulman: Who Should Win at This Year’s Tony Awards? 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z There was no need for the East German government, as it sealed off its own citizens in the summer of 1961, to shoehorn this part of the wall into a crowded neighborhood. For architects, Trump's wall reveals as much as it promises to close off 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The chance to rave aboard a converted East German industrial fishing vessel was billed as one of the highlights of this summer's ill-fated Bloc festival. Clubs picks of the week 2012-11-10T00:06:20Z In a surprise move, East German officials opened the border on November 9 — 25 years ago. The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago She survived the war, but was forced to flee Communist Berlin on the night of her planned stage debut, plunging into the River Spree in a bid to escape East German authorities. Ingrid Pitt, doyenne of Hammer horror films, dies 2010-11-23T23:30:00Z Nor do I imagine that he imagined a museum of East German motorcycles. In Berlin, it’s a whole new city, but the Wall’s traces remain That might have been the final word on the visit, were it not for a new project, 30 years after Germany’s reunification, to digitize thousands of East German newsreels. History on screen: East Germany through its filmmakers’ eyes 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z In Ethiopia, it was under communism, so we were watching a lot of East German television and Russian television and a lot of Bollywood. Why Ethiopian director Yared Zeleke is generating buzz with 'Lamb,' his first film 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z On Nov. 9, 1989, the East German government made a surprising announcement: It was easing up travel restrictions on its citizens. 36 Hours in Berlin 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z They include the famous image of boxy East German Trabant car that appears to burst through the wall; and a fraternal communist kiss between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and his East German counterpart, Erich Honecker. Berlin wall removal project stalls amid protests 2013-03-01T13:58:17Z This is the first and, to date, the only novel by Mr. Ruge, 59, who was born in the Urals and, like Alexander Umnitzer, is the son of a prominent East German historian. Books of The Times: ‘In Times of Fading Light’ Spans Generations in Germany 2013-08-13T19:37:43Z We walk up in the morning through Prenzlauer Berg, which was Dissident Central in the East German days. In Berlin, it’s a whole new city, but the Wall’s traces remain She still earned a respectable 25/30, even though the East German judge gave her a 6. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Zorro on a Zipline 2013-04-16T09:45:55Z Mr. Follett quickly equates East Germans’ loss of freedom with the situation of blacks deprived of civil rights in the American South. ‘Edge of Eternity’ Completes Ken Follett Trilogy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Born in 1976, she was raised on the communist side of the Iron Curtain by her East German mother. ‘Harmattan Tales’ looks at what it means to be a woman in the African Muslim world 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z They mark where the Berlin Wall, for 28 years, divided neighbors, friends and families, keeping East Germans behind the Iron Curtain. Where Berlin’s infamous wall once stood, humans and nature now flourish 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z It again starred Guinness and concludes the titanic struggle between Smiley and Karla, his archenemy in East German intelligence, who ran the British mole and seemed to know Smiley better than he knew himself. 5 best movies based on John le Carr? books 2011-12-15T20:59:21Z Shortly after midnight on Aug. 13, 1961, East German troops began erecting a barbed-wire barrier to prevent skilled workers from fleeing to West Germany. Half of Germans unaware of when Berlin Wall built: survey 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Collins is awaiting the arrival of some authentic East German school desks and chairs. Fastest! Tallest! Marxist! The visual art of Phil Collins 2011-02-06T22:29:00Z Audiences on this Saturday night were cheering for "Beyond the Horizon," which remembers the collective pain of the Berlin Wall and the harsh reign of the East German secret police, known as the Stasi. 'Beyond the Horizon' healing wounds of a divided Germany with pop rock 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Dietrich Garstka, who wrote the book on which the movie is based, started school in 1945 - the year Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime collapsed - so the communist East German system was all he knew. Berlin festival movie tells true story of Cold War rebels with a cause 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Starting in the 1960s, the Stasi, the East German secret police, recruited many of the grown-up progeny in East Germany as spies, sending them to Norway to be reunited with unsuspecting families. Movie Review: In ‘Two Lives,’ a War Legacy Threatens a Norwegian Family 2014-02-28T00:16:38Z In 1951, East German authorities initially sought to block the Brecht-Dessau opera “The Condemnation of Lucullus” because of its “predominance of destructive, caustic dissonances and mechanical percussive noise.” A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Rebecca’s life takes an early gut punch when she learns that her husband, Hans, is a member of the East Germans secret police and married her only to spy on her family. ‘Edge of Eternity’ Completes Ken Follett Trilogy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z These people are East Germans looking into the West for relatives. A War Photographer Is Celebrated as an Artist, to His Dismay 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Dietrich Garstka, who wrote the book on which the movie is based, started school in 1945 - the year Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime collapsed - so the communist East German system was all he knew. Berlin festival movie tells true story of Cold War rebels with a cause 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z With “In the Aisles,” which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, German director Thomas Stuber seeks to dramatize the uncertainty that many East German workers still face in a reunited Germany. Film about East German workers highlights united Germany's... 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z In 1957, while studying printmaking there, Mr. Richter applied an ink roller directly to paper to produce cloudy, melancholy monotypes, wholly unlike the Socialist Realist imagery expected of an East German artist. 2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Little did we know what awaited us when we piled into our red VW Beetle on a snowy day and drove to the East German border. Freedom to vote: It's more than just a concept | Op-Ed 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z East Germans were forbidden from crossing the Berlin Wall, which was constructed in 1961 to prevent people fleeing to the West. Former Stasi officer charged with 1974 Berlin Wall murder 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z When government leaders in Saxony learned that Rheinmetall, Germany’s most prominent arms manufacturer, was considering building a new munitions factory in the former East German state, they saw visions of economic boom. Small-Town Revolt Reveals Larger German Concerns About Arming Ukraine 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies competed against steroid-juiced East German women at the height of the Cold War doping era, but she says the current influx of biological males in women’s sports is even more unfair. Olympic medalist: Transgender women in women’s sports ‘10 times worse’ than East German doping 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z “It was an important time in his life,” said Douglas Selvage, a historian who works at the main Berlin archive of the Stasi, the onetime East German secret police. Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z In recent days, one conservative politician portrayed Mr. Habeck as an East German Stasi, or secret police officer, spying on people’s homes. Ugly Fight Over Climate Bill Exposes Cracks in German Coalition 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z On the evening of August 12–13, 1961, East German troops erected a barbed wire fence to divide the western part of Berlin from the eastern. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Döpfner’s remarks, in which he said all East Germans were “either Communists or fascists,” led some people, including the government’s point person for the region, to call for his resignation. Axel Springer C.E.O. Apologizes for Remarks 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Davies, who competed in three Olympic Games for the United Kingdom, compared the situation to the heyday of East German doping, when the Soviet bloc nation would bring in sometimes-unheralded steroid-infused women. Olympic medalist: Transgender women in women’s sports ‘10 times worse’ than East German doping 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Doepfner said his remarks about East Germans were triggered by his anger at the large share of voters there who back the post-communist Left party or the far-right Alternative for Germany. Top publisher apologizes for slurs about ‘East Germans’ 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Although epidemiologists had assumed that East Germans would have more asthma because of higher air pollution rates, the opposite was true. Children raised with dogs and cats are less likely to develop food allergies, study finds 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z “Most employed professionals today, to say nothing of academics, are simply not permitted to speak out. We have developed an East German situation of information control by default.” Conservatives fear ‘cancel culture’ payback for discussing politics, religion 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z After the fall of the Soviet Union, Germany learned that a top director, Gabriele Gast, who worked closely with the chancellery, spied for the Stasi, the East German secret police, for 17 years. A Russian Mole in Germany Sows Suspicions at Home, and Beyond 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z “We would have East German athletes turning up to things like, even like the Olympics, and we’d never, ever seen them before, and they would literally arrive and smash world records,” Davies said. Olympic medalist: Transgender women in women’s sports ‘10 times worse’ than East German doping 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Afterward, he was among the first former East German politicians to join the reunited Parliament, serving until 1994. Hans Modrow, 95, One of East Germany’s Last Communist Leaders, Is Dead 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z This was in 1990, when she was 6 and the Berlin Wall had just fallen, flooding Zwickau, the East German town where she was raised, with previously inaccessible Western media and products. The Artists Questioning Nostalgia for East Germany’s Past 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z "Last night Hans Modrow left us at the age of 95. With this, our party loses an important personality," the party, successor to the East German Communist Party, said in a statement. East Germany's last Communist premier dies aged 95 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s the only current Bundesliga team to have played in the old East German league. Isco’s move to Union Berlin called off, club says 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Davies sympathized Tuesday with the East German women, calling them “pawns of a horrible system,” and blaming the International Olympic Committee for waffling. Olympic medalist: Transgender women in women’s sports ‘10 times worse’ than East German doping 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z It’s the most the former East German league club has spent on a player. Union Berlin signs Croatia right back Juranović from Celtic 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Naumann, too, has sought to complicate nostalgia for East German history by invoking its political consequences. The Artists Questioning Nostalgia for East Germany’s Past 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z East German border guards seen through a gap in the Berlin Wall after demonstrators pulled down a segment near Brandenburg Gate in 1989. 100 Years Since the Birth of the Soviet Union, in Pictures 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, East German athletes won 25 medals, including nine golds. Werner Franke, Who Exposed East German Doping Program, Dies at 82 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Ms. Merkel, a former East German physicist who speaks fluent Russian, was more familiar with Mr. Putin than many other European leaders, in part because they had both led their respective countries for so long. Merkel says she lacked the power to influence Putin ahead of his invasion of Ukraine. 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z In a seaside hotel — nicknamed the “Stasi Hotel” for its previous associations with East German intelligence — guest of honor Schröder cautioned against spiraling sanctions and thanked Merkel for keeping lines of communication with Moscow open. Flow of Russian gas and cash entangled German state in dependent web 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Powers told staff in a letter that students brought the costume to his attention, which he said was supposed to be a Communist-era East German soldier and not a Nazi, according to WMAQ-TV. Chicago principal suspended for letting student wear German military costume for Halloween 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Thomas Fabian, the deputy mayor of the East German city of Leipzig, says many places are now struggling because they had resisted maintaining facilities for refugees. A New Refugee Crisis Stirs Uncomfortable Issues for Europe 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Four years later, in Montreal, they won 94 medals, 42 of them gold; stunningly, 11 of the 13 women’s swimming events were won by East Germans. Werner Franke, Who Exposed East German Doping Program, Dies at 82 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z There he settled into a comfortable expat life, but in November 1989, the East German regime began to collapse, with shocking speed. Vladimir Putin at 70: Seven pivotal moments that made him 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Union is the only club playing in the Bundesliga to have played in the old East German league. Coach Urs Fischer and assistant continuing with Union Berlin 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z He snapped up an East German T-72 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nokesville’s ‘Tank Farm’ tells the story of American combat through collection of armored vehicles 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z The Köpenick-based club is the only one currently playing in the Bundesliga to have played in the old East German league. Union Berlin enjoying unfamiliar view at top of Bundesliga 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z By then, Mrs. Franke-Berendonk had conveyed to her husband her suspicions that East German athletes, some of whom she had competed against, were taking performance-enhancing drugs. Werner Franke, Who Exposed East German Doping Program, Dies at 82 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z East German officials erected high-rises to block sightlines of it, for fear the publisher would install a news ticker to beam the headlines of a free press to its citizens behind the wall. Politico’s new German owner has a ‘contrarian’ plan for American media 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z “Instead, Mikhail Gorbachev reproached the aging East German leadership with the sentence: ‘Life punishes those who come too late.’” Gorbachev remembered fondly in Germany for enabling unity 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Gorbachev wouldn't let the East German authorities open fire on the crowds and without force there was no way of stopping the demonstrations. John Simpson: Mikhail Gorbachev was a man of decency but not vision 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z In Leipzig, hundreds of thousands of East Germans rallied for weekly freedom marches demanding democratic elections, independent labor unions and the dismantling of the secret police. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z In 1994, he gained access to an archive of the Stasi, the East German secret police, which was deeply involved in the doping program. Werner Franke, Who Exposed East German Doping Program, Dies at 82 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Then this week the Sunday news shows suddenly had trouble finding Republicans who were willing to compare the FBI to the East German Stasi or the Department of Justice's decision action to Stalin's Great Purge. Trump and his minions up their threats as his legal case crumbles 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Just over a month later, under pressure from ever-larger demonstrations, the East German government opened the highly fortified border that had stopped most of the country’s population from traveling to the West. Gorbachev remembered fondly in Germany for enabling unity 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Soon the East German state ceased to exist and Germany was reunited. John Simpson: Mikhail Gorbachev was a man of decency but not vision 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The East German government tried to stem the flight to the West by publishing the draft of a law permitting every citizen to travel abroad or emigrate. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Groups like the East German Stasi and the Romanian Securitate were unable to suppress the popular uprisings that undermined communist one-party rule in most of those countries in the late 1980s. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z In return, 23 people held in East German and Polish jails were freed. Proposal for Griner, Whelan follows history of U.S.-Russia prisoner swaps 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The discredited East German Communist Party, which like the Romanian revolution I also covered as a reporter, made similar empty gestures, promising to open its closed party headquarters to the public long after anyone cared. The Four Horsemen of the 21st century: War, capitalism, fascism and mass death 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Dr Egger says East German children's literature often reflected the socialist message of "you as an individual supporting the greater good". The Irish artist who charmed East German children 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z After the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the sudden withdrawal of East German state support for local industries, this region went into decline and during the 1990s struggled with unemployment and depopulation. Ukraine war: Why Russian oil is so sticky for Germany 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z He left the Army a captain, having been a tank commander along the East German border. Opinion | Mike Pompeo ponders entering the presidential marathon 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Two more East Germans and their families were also allowed to leave for the West. Proposal for Griner, Whelan follows history of U.S.-Russia prisoner swaps 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The project also represents a significant financial investment in the former East German states that since reunification have attracted less major business than the traditional powerhouse states of the former West Germany. Elon Musk opens Tesla’s first European plant, near Berlin. 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z But members of the opposition group in the Welsh Parliament said they were "worried" it could create a "Stasi culture" in Wales - referring to the old East German secret police. Parents smacking children becomes illegal in Wales 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z He held out a flower to a bewildered-looking East German soldier who, after a pause that seemed to last a lifetime, held out his hand and accepted the gesture of peace. Ukraine: Nick Robinson on how Germany is reversing decades of closer ties with Russia 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z The first occurred in August 1961 when the East German government, with the approval of the Kremlin, began erecting the barrier that would become known as the Berlin Wall. Reflections from the Netherworld 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Like everyone behind the Iron Curtain, the East Germans were not free to leave. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in 1989, Hungary allowed vacationing East German tourists to cross the border into Austria. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Former East German athletes who were subjected to a state-sponsored doping program experienced serious harm to their physical and mental health. Opinion | Russia is embroiled in another doping controversy. No one should be surprised. 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Indirectly, it involves the then-common East German practice of selling political prisoners to the West for, among other items, oranges. Review | Great thrillers abound this month. Here are five of the best. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z When her East German husband goes missing, an American translator working in West Germany realizes her marriage was based on deception. 10 noteworthy books for February 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Still, over the years, about 5,000 East Germans risked their lives to cross the wall into the West. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The new East German leader, Egon Krenz, boldly gambled that he could restore stability by allowing people to leave East Germany. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z More recently, former chancellor Angela Merkel, who as an East German lived under communism, was more tough-minded in her dealings with Putin. Opinion | Putin faces plenty of obstacles as he tries to impose his will on Ukraine and the West 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z He still remembers how millions of East Germans brought down the regime with their weekly demonstrations in 1989. In Germany, activists rise up to counter vaccine skeptics 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Another poll published last month by Civey found that more than half of East Germans and 35% of West Germans favour a collaborative approach, while only 22% of Germans favoured a confrontational approach. 'Whose side are you on?': Russia war threat shakes Ukraine's faith in ties with Germany 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z In 1961, the East German government built the Berlin Wall to stop them. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Its railroads, highways, and telephone system had not been modernized since World War II. East German industries produced goods that could not compete in the global market. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He helped Dynamo to five East German league titles and five East German cups. East Germany, Dynamo Dresden great ‘Dixie’ Dörner dies at 70 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Gathered around the table with East German nuns, Poitier’s character coaxes the sisters into saying “Amen” with the tinge of Black enunciation. Perspective | Sidney Poitier movies bored me as a kid. Only later did I get what made him great. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z As she strolled down Karl Marx Allee in Berlin, retired East German accountant Christina Mahler, 84, said she agreed with the remarks by the ousted navy chief that Russia's views were important. 'Whose side are you on?': Russia war threat shakes Ukraine's faith in ties with Germany 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z On November 9, 1989, East German leaders were forced to open the checkpoints. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of East Germans took this new escape route to the west. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s a remainder of the old East German sports machine, having grown up on that side of the wall and competed as a teenager. ‘Grandma’ Claudia Pechstein skates into 8th Olympics 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Some feel discriminated against as East Germans, because not all their hopes have been fulfilled 30 years after communism’s collapse. Undertakers, rabbis join global fight promoting COVID shots 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Lohn compared the Thomas situation to that of the East German women’s swimmers whose Olympic wins in the 1970s and 1980s were marred by allegations and admissions of performance-enhancing drugs. ‘Akin to doping’: Swimming World editor urges NCAA to intervene as Lia Thomas smashes records 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z By the end of 1990, East Germans and others had torn down much of the wall. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In response, the East German government closed its borders entirely. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z East German leaders responded with a draft plan to relax border controls. Riccardo Ehrman: Journalist who prompted Berlin Wall to fall dies 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Ukraine’s success would upend Russia’s irredentist aspirations for empire and highlight the Kremlin’s failures, just as West Germany’s achievements once did in comparison to the totalitarian East German state during the Cold War. Opinion | How the United States Can Break Putin’s Hold on Ukraine 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z He captured West Berliners hauling their East German compatriots up and over the wall that had kept them trapped by a communist regime for 28 years, in the first dramatic steps toward Germany’s reunification. Tom Stoddart, British photojournalist who portrayed human dignity amid the fury of war, dies at 67 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Until recently, Ms. Merkel had rarely spoken about her East German background. Angela Merkel’s Parting Message to Germany: Trust One Another 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z By the end of 1989, the East German Communist Party had ceased to exist. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Word spread fast and thousands of East Germans flocked to the Berlin Wall, surprising border guards who opened the checkpoints to allow people through. Riccardo Ehrman: Journalist who prompted Berlin Wall to fall dies 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Almost every other East German is thought to know the lyrics off by heart, says the Tagesspiegel newspaper. Merkel picks German punk singer Hagen for last serenade 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z While other East German activists insisted that their country fix itself and remain separate from the West, Merkel became one of the first to advocate quick unity. Perspective | Merkel rose to command Europe — thanks to her East German humility 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z At one point, Rudolph rigged a secure communications system beneath the tunnel sophisticated enough to evade the East German secret police, the Stasi, who were experts in eavesdropping. Review | A group of students, a secret tunnel and a daring escape from East Germany 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z In 1961, the East Germans built a wall to separate East and West Berlin. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The party has outgrown its East German base, establishing strongholds in poorer, post-industrial cities in western Germany. German conservatives raise spectre of far-left rule ahead of election 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The party was formed out of the remnants of the old East German socialist party and disaffected left-wingers who left the SPD in the mid-noughties. German election: Who could succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor? 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Many of her fellow East German activists swiftly lost their moral standing as Stasi records were plundered, revealing the many prominent dissidents who had regularly informed on their peers, but Merkel emerged unscathed. Perspective | Merkel rose to command Europe — thanks to her East German humility 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z He noted that Friday marks the 60th anniversary of the day when construction began on the Berlin Wall, where dozens of fleeing East Germans were killed until 1989. Victims slam Tesla subsidy from East German communist fund 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z The East Germans among us, jaded by the regime’s history of lies, thought it was a ruse. Perspective | As my Post career ends, I remember a historic night in Berlin and dining on birthday goat 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, Soviet and East German scientists found no positive effect of negative ions on physical performance, said Alfred Nimmerichter, an Austrian exercise physiologist. To Sprinters, Hot Weather in Tokyo Feels Just Right 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z East Germans said, a lot of people I interviewed there at the time in '89 said, "We want capitalism. We want socialism. Let us decide. Let us make these decisions." Chris Matthews on Jan. 6, the danger to democracy and what he learned from #MeToo 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z At least two East German political leaders committed suicide after revelations that they’d been reporting on fellow dissidents; others vanished in disrepute. Perspective | Merkel rose to command Europe — thanks to her East German humility 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Nijenhuis unabashedly embraced the East German revolutionary spirit at the theater. He Came to Berlin to Change the World. Then the World Changed Berlin. 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z The centre will be built on the site of a 13th century church which was destroyed by the Communist East German government in the 1960s. Synagogue, mosque and church to join under one roof in Berlin 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Over there is the East German Olympic team. It’s well past time for horse racing to clean out the cheaters 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Truman and his team had to confront an aggressive Soviet Union with 12 million soldiers poised on the East German border. Opinion | The Biden administration is making a welcome change in foreign policy 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Wherever East Germans turned, they saw Kohl pledging quick unification and a Western lifestyle. Perspective | Merkel rose to command Europe — thanks to her East German humility 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z He was an asset for the East German Stasi and an avid Berlin cycling enthusiast himself. The Joys of Biking at Night 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z The information he turned over reputedly led to the deaths of scores of highly placed Western agents, including Robert Bialek, a top-ranking East German police official. George Blake, notorious Cold War double agent who helped Soviets, dies at 98 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z The communist authorities replaced it with the Palace of the Republic, which housed the East German parliament and a cultural and leisure centre. Humboldt Forum: Berlin museum opens despite criticism over looted art 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Streaming TV includes a new version of “The Hardy Boys“; the second season of “NOS4A2“; and “Deutschland 89,” the third season of the German series about an East German spy. New on Hulu in December 2020: ‘The Secret Garden,’ ‘The Hardy Boys,’ ‘Letterkenny’ and more 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Merkel got it: She knew that East Germans would never vote for a reformed communism over Volkswagen Golfs, Levi’s jeans and the chancellor of German unity. Perspective | Merkel rose to command Europe — thanks to her East German humility 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The following year he joined other members of his regiment, the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers, stationed near the East German border, and in 1982 they married. 'Covid killed my wife - so I'm taking part in a vaccine trial' 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z He knew how to vanish to the East Germans. A Haunting Tale of Spies and Specters 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z The friend with whom he'd cooked up the plan succeeded, but East German border guards shot Fechter in his right hip. From job loss to financial anxieties, border walls are how politicians redirect our fears 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z “I was shown a picture of people from the eastern side standing on the wall,” she said, referring to the scenes from after the collapse of the East German regime in 1989. Belarus opposition leader sees inspiration in fallen Berlin wall 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z In her first years in Bonn, Merkel looked like West Germans’ stereotype of East Germans — no makeup, clothes never close to fashionable. Perspective | Merkel rose to command Europe — thanks to her East German humility 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z That might have been the final word on the visit, were it not for a new project, 30 years after Germany’s reunification, to digitize thousands of East German newsreels. History on screen: East Germany through its filmmakers’ eyes 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z One used to be an East German border guard; the other grew up just west of the border and started bird-watching in the area at 13. 30 Years After Reunification, Old German-German Border Is a Green Oasis 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z He fell onto the East German side of the wall—where he lived—and died within an hour. From job loss to financial anxieties, border walls are how politicians redirect our fears 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Raeder, who runs a small museum dedicated to East German military equipment, said what shocked him most were those who switched sides from one moment to the next. From Communist cadre to Coca-Cola rep: An East German story 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Born in the city of Ostrava in what was then Czechoslovakia, Gerolt moved to the East German city of Dresden in 1975. Blast from the past: Campers revel in East German nostalgia 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Of Merten, the accident report said: “His East German heritage meant he was likely a man of few words who was not very comfortable around people.” In 2005, Helios flight 522 crashed into a Greek hillside. Was it because one man forgot to flip a switch? 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z The day after, Mr. Frobel and other environmentalists from the nature conservancy where he works, wrote to East German counterparts and invited them to a meeting in the Bavarian city of Hof a month later. 30 Years After Reunification, Old German-German Border Is a Green Oasis 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z East Germans had been told that the purpose of the Berlin Wall was to keep out Western fascists. From job loss to financial anxieties, border walls are how politicians redirect our fears 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z The great East German GM Wolfgang Uhlmann, who passed away last week at the age of 85, didn’t make it into “My 60 Memorable Games,” but his spirit hovers over Bobby Fischer’s anthology masterpiece. Internet glitch means shared chess Olympiad gold for Russia, India 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Living in a mobile dead spot has one upside, according to Raeder, who runs a small museum dedicated to East German army radio technology: the lack of infrastructure means housing is affordable. Zero G: Some German mobile users still waiting for a signal 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The best way to escape creeping migration was to move to the East German countryside, “where people are still called Schmidt, Schneider and Müller.” Body Bags and Enemy Lists: How Far-Right Police Officers and Ex-Soldiers Planned for ‘Day X’ 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z By the next Olympics in 1968, though, there were separate West German and East German squads. Holdorf, 1964 Olympic decathlon champion, dies at 80 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z But the truth was that the wall was made to keep East Germans in; that was increasingly clear. From job loss to financial anxieties, border walls are how politicians redirect our fears 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s a musical about an East German transgender singer who experienced a botched sex change operation. D.C. theater stars recommend their favorite stage-to-screen adaptations 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Such monitoring is already proving controversial in Germany, where memories of the East German Stasi secret police and its informants are still fresh in the minds of many. Pass the salt: The minute details that helped Germany build virus defences 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr Hirte was a minister for former East German states and secretary of state for the economy and energy. Merkel fires minister over far right row 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z His fervent anti-communist beliefs earned him no fans in many nations, with East German radio regularly describing him as "that mad bloodhound Hoare". Mercenary 'Mad Mike' Hoare dies aged 100 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z An East German tunnels under the Berlin Wall and leads his girlfriend and 26 others to freedom. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Then came 1989 and the reunification of Germany, which meant East Germans lost their full reproductive rights as well. Germany’s abortion law: made by the Nazis, upheld by today’s right | Mithu Sanyal 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Artifacts included 12ft-high concrete sections of the Berlin Wall beside an East German watchtower and an exhibit about US presidents’ pet dogs. Washington's Newseum nears final deadline amid crisis in US journalism 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z She was a student nearly two decades ago when she became a tenant in a World War II-era building formerly owned by the East German government, on Schönhauser Allee, a central street. Mortgage Rates Below 1% Put Europe on Alert for Housing Bubble 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The Masin brothers’ impossible flight to the West, in which they outmaneuvered thousands of East German police and Soviet soldiers, is a story of national legend. Czech history through the eyes of a filmmaker 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Burglars have stolen communist-era medals and jewellery worth thousands of euros from Berlin’s Stasi Museum, located in the former headquarters of the East German secret police. Thieves take medals and jewellery from Berlin's Stasi Museum 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z He photographed East Germans shopping in West Berlin, border guards smiling and waving, children hawking pieces of the wall to tourists. The photographer who links US civil rights and Berlin Wall 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z A German newspaper has been forced to launch an investigation into its new owner after it was revealed he had been an informer for the East German secret police, the Stasi. German newspaper investigates new owner over Stasi informer role 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z After the war, while West Germany de-Nazified, East Germans, Hungarians and Poles were told they bore no responsibility for fascism or the Holocaust, which were portrayed as capitalist crimes. Opinion | The politics of the 1930s are still playing out in Eastern Europe 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of the East German government announcing that the border between communist East Berlin and democratic West Berlin, demarcated by the Berlin Wall, was open. Fake 'Berlin Wall' dismantled by German soccer fans before match 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Drieselmann told the Guardian he expected the burglars knew that some of the medals did not have a high material value but would still find enthusiastic buyers among collectors of East German memorabilia. Thieves take medals and jewellery from Berlin's Stasi Museum 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z He recalled encountering East German activists who told him they had succeeded in bringing the wall down by repeating the non-violent protesting and marches of the civil rights movement. The photographer who links US civil rights and Berlin Wall 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z He said that like many thousands of East German citizens he had been forced to cooperate with the Stasi after a failed attempt to escape the country. German newspaper investigates new owner over Stasi informer role 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z On the night after the Berlin Wall fell, as I watched crowds of delirious East Germans surge down West Berlin’s broad Kurfürstendamm street, it didn’t occur to me that history was ending. Opinion | The politics of the 1930s are still playing out in Eastern Europe 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z The Berlin Wall was constructed nearly overnight in 1961 with barbed wire and barricades cutting through the city after nearly 2.5 million East Germans escaped to the west. Fake 'Berlin Wall' dismantled by German soccer fans before match 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Others, like the Czech and East German leaderships, merely perished. In place of Berlin’s Wall now stands a barrier of sullen resentment | Neal Ascherson 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z The Berlin Wall was quickly built in August 1961 to stop East Germans fleeing to the West. Germany marks 30th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall, but post-Cold War gains are under threat 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z East Germans are still seeking answers for some of the bad things that happened to them. Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germans still seeking answers 30 years later 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The Berlin Wall was constructed nearly overnight in 1961 with barbed wire and barricades cutting through the city after nearly 2.5 million East Germans fled to the west. Germany, allies celebrate 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall fall 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The wall is pulled down as thousands of East Germans celebrate entering West Berlin. German leaders mark fall of Berlin Wall with warning about democracy 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z When the East Germans odiously boasted that their “antifascist defence wall” was preserving the peace of Europe, western diplomats – deep in their souls – didn’t entirely disagree. In place of Berlin’s Wall now stands a barrier of sullen resentment | Neal Ascherson 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z The East German student activists wanted an alternative form of government that was neither capitalist nor communist. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German-born Seattleites reflect on life in a divided world 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Some former East Germans say they believed in socialism and there were things about the old system that were good, like education and childcare, provided by the state. Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germans still seeking answers 30 years later 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The Wall fell on November 9, 1989, after the German Democratic Republic announced travel restrictions would be lifted for East Germans. Germany, allies celebrate 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall fall 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z My English stepmother – a foreigner – was outraged in the summer of 1989 when she saw East Germans proudly waving their new passports outside the West German embassies in Prague and Budapest. Watching the fall of the Berlin Wall: 'I downed almost an entire bottle of schnapps' 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Looming over the wall segments is an authentic three-story East German guard tower. Four unexpected places where the Berlin Wall still stands 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Despite the heavy presence of police and military forces, a terrified Queitsch marched with 100 others on Halle’s central marketplace to protest the East German regime. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German-born Seattleites reflect on life in a divided world 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the East German government announcing that the border between communist East Berlin and democratic West Berlin, demarcated by the Berlin Wall, was open. German group sending Trump a Berlin Wall fragment on 30th anniversary of its fall 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z On a visit to Berlin, Mr Pompeo said methods used by China to suppress its own people would be "horrifyingly familiar" to East Germans. Pompeo attacks Russia and China in Berlin speech 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The bureaucrat produces photographs and film footage shot on hand-held camera on November 12, 1989 – three days after the East German border was first breached. 'Witnesses of history': the man who kept slabs of the Berlin Wall 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Later Thursday, he traveled to Leipzig to meet with Heiko Maas, the German foreign minister, and tour the St. Nicholas church, where East Germans held mass demonstrations calling for democratic reforms in 1989. Pompeo and Netanyahu Escalate Pressure on Europeans to Scrap Iran Nuclear Pact 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z East German soldiers, unable to handle the large crowds, and uncertain about orders to fire on the crowd, eventually just let people through. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German-born Seattleites reflect on life in a divided world 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Not least, many East Germans feel like second-class citizens after a reunification that Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz, a psychoanalyst in the eastern city of Halle, calls a “cultural takeover.” Germany Has Been Unified for 30 Years. Its Identity Still Is Not. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Only 38 percent of East Germans think reunification succeeded, according to a government report released in September. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, children of a united Germany remain divided 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z A tunnel built under the Berlin Wall to allow dozens of East Germans to escape to freedom has been exposed for the first time in almost half a century. 'It was gut-wrenching': Berlin Wall tunnellers recall 1971 capture 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z They wanted to help friends and family to flee to the West but, days before it was finished, East German officials discovered the tunnel and partially destroyed it. Escape tunnel underneath Berlin Wall opens to public 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z East Germans and West Germans alike rushed the wall in celebration, passing through the gates, climbing over the wall and taking hammers to it. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German-born Seattleites reflect on life in a divided world 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Joyous and curious like so many of her fellow West Germans, she had gone to the city center to greet East Germans who were pouring across the border for a first taste of freedom. Germany Has Been Unified for 30 Years. Its Identity Still Is Not. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z East Germans swarmed to the Berlin Wall, where they were welcomed by citizens from West Germany. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, children of a united Germany remain divided 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Sept. 11: Hungary allows East Germans to cross its border to Austria, opening the way to the West for tens of thousands. Timeline of events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z In Washington, Secretary of State James A. Baker III said free travel for East Germans would be a “very positive development” that the United States would welcome. AP’s story on the day the Wall fell 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Seeming as permanent as death, it cut off East Germans from the supposed ideological contamination of the West and stemmed the tide of people fleeing East Germany. AP reporter recounts covering fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Dr. Maaz, like many of his patients, now identifies as East German, something he never did under Communism. Germany Has Been Unified for 30 Years. Its Identity Still Is Not. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Suddenly East Germans were in the spotlight: for being racist and far-right. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, children of a united Germany remain divided 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Sept. 30: Nearly 6,000 East Germans holed up at the West German embassy in Prague are allowed to leave for the West. Timeline of events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Hitchhikers were one of a number of “negative decadent” youth movements – including punks, rockers, goths and New Romantics – the Stasi believed to be part of a concerted western effort to undermine East German morale. 'I've been shafted twice': Stasi victims and their quest for compensation 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Many East Germans experienced years of identity crisis and have now turned to the opposite of what they had been forced to think: far-right politics are strong and growing. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z East Germans, bio-Germans, passport Germans: In an increasingly diverse country, the legacy of a divided history has left many feeling like strangers in their own land. Germany Has Been Unified for 30 Years. Its Identity Still Is Not. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Among the most controversial is the work of Treuhandanstalt, an East German agency created to privatize state companies before reunification in 1990. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, children of a united Germany remain divided 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z But the news was all over television - and East Germans flocked to the border in huge numbers. How 1989 reshaped the modern world 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “East Germans understood how to read between the lines and we all got what he was saying.” How rock ’n' roll shook East Berlin's core — and the wall 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z I have vivid memories of every single car seat being removed by the East German officers when we came back, in case we had smuggled out relatives. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z After the Wall fell, East Germans voted for the quickest route to unification, buoyed by dreams of freedom and prosperity. 30 years after Berlin Wall fell, East-West divides remain 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Daniel Kubiak, a sociologist at Humboldt University in Berlin, said it’s important to move on from explaining everything about eastern Germany with East German history. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, children of a united Germany remain divided 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z In the heat of August, Hungary opened it borders to Austria in the west, allowing East German refugees an escape. How 1989 reshaped the modern world 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Hope M. Harrison, an associate professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University, said that rock music had had a profound impact on East Germans for decades. How rock ’n' roll shook East Berlin's core — and the wall 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z It confused me until I read the headline: “East German troops begin partial demolition of the Wall.” ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Few visible scars remain other than those intentionally left in place to remind Berliners and tourists of the brutal border that claimed the lives of scores of East Germans trying to flee the communist country. East-West divide has left its mark in Berlin, 30 years on 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “It just means that young East German people are so integrated, that it’s not possible to ignore our voice,” she said. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, children of a united Germany remain divided 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The return of the Erfurt mural, however, speaks of a new pragmatism in the treatment of artworks from the East German regime. Mural superiority: the fight over Germany's cold war art heritage 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z In any case, authorities hoped Springsteen’s appearance would pacify restless East Germans clamoring for more reforms, freedoms and rock ’n’ roll. How rock ’n' roll shook East Berlin's core — and the wall 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z It became the soundtrack for many East German kids who had not yet been infected by the new sound of techno. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z While the East German designs will eventually be replaced because they don’t conform to new standards, Ehlert says there’s an ample supply in storage for now. East-West divide has left its mark in Berlin, 30 years on 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z For a long time, the East German perspective was ignored in history and the media, she said. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, children of a united Germany remain divided 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z A new €1.5m programme by the foundation will specialise in restoring East German public works of art, of which it estimates only 60% survive. Mural superiority: the fight over Germany's cold war art heritage 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z To win approval from the leaders of the communist government, the East German youth organization FDJ branded the Springsteen show with a communist stamp, labeling it a “Concert for Nicaragua” without informing him. How rock ’n' roll shook East Berlin's core — and the wall 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z But East Germans were too frightened to come because they knew they would be tailed by the Stasi when they left. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Ten years ago, at the last big anniversary, I had written a book about my East German family. German novelists on the fall of the Berlin wall: ‘It was a source of energy we lived off for years’ 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z The agency used tens of thousands of employees and a vast web of informants to monitor every facet of society, causing many East Germans to live in terror. Thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell, a Stasi spy puzzle remains unsolved 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The East German leagues were incorporated into the West German system in 1991, after German reunification the year before. Berlin divided again as Union hosts Hertha in Bundesliga 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z East German security police feared a mass escape and cleared the area, at times with force. How rock ’n' roll shook East Berlin's core — and the wall 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z I ended up organising more than 100 artists, including many East Germans. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Since then, every anniversary, I imagine the student from Düsseldorf, years later, telling his children about that strange east Berliner with the battered thumb, that torture victim of the rogue East German state. German novelists on the fall of the Berlin wall: ‘It was a source of energy we lived off for years’ 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Forty years of history were dramatically swept aside yesterday with the announcement that the ruling East German Communist Party is apparently willing to contest free elections. How communist Europe was swept by a tide of change - archive, 1989 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The suffragettes, the Indian salt marchers, the civil rights movement and the Polish and East German democracy movements, to name just a few, all used it as a crucial strategy. Today, I aim to get arrested. It is the only real power climate protesters have | George Monbiot 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Millions of East Germans secretly watched colourful, capitalist West German TV, even though that was illegal. The people power activists who toppled East Germany 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z In the 70s, Wolfe worked with East German scientists who wanted to reduce their use of expensive foreign pesticides. Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Crowds of ecstatic East Germans poured across the open border. Fall of Berlin Wall was 'worst night of my life' 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The New Forum yesterday called on all East Germans to take steps to replace the country’s leadership. How communist Europe was swept by a tide of change - archive, 1989 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z More recently, the Berlin Wall to stop hordes of East Germans from fleeing to West Germany. The Great Wall of Trump will not work 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z In the summer of 1989 Hungary removed barbed wire on its border with capitalist Austria, creating an escape route for East Germans desperate to reach the West. The people power activists who toppled East Germany 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z In secret, many East Germans wrote anonymous dispatches to the BBC, many of them emotional and heartbreaking, which are read out on its German-language service every Friday evening from the early 1950s. Beach towels and Brexit: how Germans really see the Brits 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Within a month of the Wall falling, Mr Krenz resigned as East German leader. Fall of Berlin Wall was 'worst night of my life' 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z East German commentators, giving way to the defensive tendencies associated with the leadership, yesterday labelled demonstrators ‘marauding mobs of troublemakers’. How communist Europe was swept by a tide of change - archive, 1989 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z "The signal being sent to many victims of the East German secret services is that the political establishment wants to draw a line under it," he told Bild newspaper. German plan to move Stasi files sparks concern 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Many East Germans traditionally went on holiday to Hungary, deprived of other opportunities for foreign travel. The people power activists who toppled East Germany 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Hipsters, sophisticated cosmopolitan theatergoers and an East German audience that has been attending for decades all happily mix in lines for cheap pretzels and beer at intermission. Commentary: Where Barrie Kosky, Europe's hot opera director, wants to make his American splash 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z In 1997 he was convicted of the manslaughter of East Germans shot trying to flee across the Berlin Wall. Fall of Berlin Wall was 'worst night of my life' 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z And he actually would send information to his East German handler and he ended up pleading guilty and testified against the other to a trial. Transcript: Rob Spencer 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z East Germans like Kerstin and Andreas, if they could go abroad on holiday at all, were limited to other Soviet satellite countries, and needed a visa even for those. From a picnic to the Berlin Wall: my 1989 summer of revolution 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z The US missiles in Western Europe drew the biggest protests; but Honecker also tolerated the small East German peace movement's opposition to Soviet nuclear missiles in the GDR. The people power activists who toppled East Germany 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z The East Germans were put on a bus, which took them to Vienna. 'Cut the Iron Curtain': Germany's 1989 freedom picnic 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z They were joined by hundreds of East Germans who took the opportunity to rush across the border into Austria and from there to West Germany. How a pan-European picnic brought down the Iron Curtain 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z When, in the novel, East German police first see signs that there might be a spy in their territory, one says that “it must be a child,” so reckless are his moves. Boris Johnson’s “Looking Glass” Brexit 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z As soon as the token stretch of border opened, hundreds of East German “holidaymakers” turned up out of nowhere to pile through into Austria. From a picnic to the Berlin Wall: my 1989 summer of revolution 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z But East Germans fed up with communism poured into the streets of Leipzig, despite extraordinary restrictions on their personal freedom. The people power activists who toppled East Germany 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z What about disgruntled Romanians, Czechs, and East Germans with easy access to Hungary? Snipping away at the Iron Curtain: when Hungary opened its Austrian border - archive, 1989 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Overcoming worries of how Moscow would react, Hungary’s government opened the border properly on 11 September, and tens of thousands of East Germans passed through. How a pan-European picnic brought down the Iron Curtain 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z They toasted with glasses of Radeberger, an East German beer that Putin enjoyed when he served as a KGB officer in Dresden in the 1980s. In Sochi, Russia’s seaside playground, Putin’s hand is everywhere 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The East Germans kept coming, and Budapest would not now send them back. From a picnic to the Berlin Wall: my 1989 summer of revolution 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z He said the political instability was "not a good overall situation" and warned his party against "waiting for further defeats", alluding to the forthcoming elections in three East German states in September and October. Merkel’s crisis-hit coalition to hold talks 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z “Many East Germans don’t sing it,” said Ramelow, a Westerner who forged a political career in the East but faces a tough re-election fight in October. Don't play that song for me: anthem plan highlights German divisions 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z When the East Germans insist that even their version of Coca-Cola is better than the west’s, the planned rapprochement descends into a battle over soft drinks. The schoolgirls who defied the Stasi: 'Someone said, 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z A large piece of a tunnel that penetrated East Germany so that the U.S. and allies could tap Soviet and East German communications. Real spies, not James Bond, take spotlight at new spy museum 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Within weeks, East Germans were moving via Hungary to West Germany, a refugee exodus that Budapest welcomed and that would lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany. Opinion | America is facing a legitimacy crisis 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Many East German firms closed after reunification, so why was Jenoptik different? Less to lose: Germany's poorer East embraces tech revolution 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z But Ramelow is not the only senior politician to fret at some East Germans’ alienation. Don't play that song for me: anthem plan highlights German divisions 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Yet they’d somehow missed the bit where the teenagers hid an East German fugitive under their coats. The schoolgirls who defied the Stasi: 'Someone said, 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z When the Berlin Wall fell, the British romance publisher Mills & Boon, which is owned by Harlequin, made a point of handing out more than 700,000 copies of their romance novels to East German women. Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Investigators into the Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people, are reported to be questioning at least five former agents of the East German secret police about their possible role in Britain’s deadliest ever terror attack. Lockerbie investigators ‘question former Stasi agents’ 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z One popular joke in communist East Germany was that authorities feared the last East German heading to the west would forget to switch off the lights. Why Viktor Orbán and his allies won’t win the EU elections | Ivan Krastev 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z To set the East German course required following several practical steps. Don't let America turn North Korea into another Iraq | William M Arkin 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z After talking to the East German on the bus, he explained to his students what this meant for everyone. The schoolgirls who defied the Stasi: 'Someone said, 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z “Hedwig,” the story of an East German transgender rocker, made its debut Off Broadway in 1998 and became a cultural phenomenon. With Big Stars and Plans, Luminary Aims to Be the Netflix of Podcasts 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z In Scotland a team of nine prosecutors is involved in investigating whether East German agents were actively involved with the regime of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Lockerbie investigators ‘question former Stasi agents’ 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The wall, guarded by soldiers on the East’s side, was a way to block the East Germans from fleeing communism to West Berlin and West Germany, a free and Democratic country. Ocasio-Cortez raises eyebrows after comparing Trump's border wall to Berlin Wall 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z In the wake of “The Lives of Others,” which told the unsettling story of an East German Stasi agent who spies on a playwright, Von Donnersmarck felt an urge to do something lighter. 'Never Look Away' puts director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck back in the Oscar race 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z He’s lost his job, and is being harassed by the Stasi, the East German secret service. The schoolgirls who defied the Stasi: 'Someone said, 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Long gone are the East German guards who would beat a hapless tourist who happened to stray to their side of the boundary. At Checkpoint Charlie, Cold War History Confronts Crass Commercialism 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z The descriptive panels accompanying the displays, which are in German and English, often have an oddly pejorative, snarky tone, even in exhibits on the more benign aspects of everyday East German life. What Does Socialism Have to Do With Sex? 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The conference was held in a little town close to the East German border. Ultima Thule, the Cold War and Trump's Wall 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z And many Western leaders were glad to back away from a confrontation with the oppressive Soviet and East German regimes. Walls are the foundation of civilization. But do they work? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Suddenly, there was a knock on the window: East German police. The schoolgirls who defied the Stasi: 'Someone said, 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z The Russian president’s revelation comes shortly after his old East German secret police identification card was reportedly discovered in the Stasi archives. Soldier, spy: more details of Vladimir Putin's past revealed 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The exhibits are generally fascinating, although embarrassed middle schoolers may scoot quickly by the extensively illustrated display dedicated to the East German enthusiasm for nudism. What Does Socialism Have to Do With Sex? 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Thousands of East Germans used this route to defect to the West. George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States, dies at 94 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “The Berlin Wall did keep East Germans from leaving for a long time. But as with most walls, you could see from the beginning that it was just doomed.” Walls are the foundation of civilization. But do they work? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The exhibit also looks at World War I and communist East German traditions, among others. Christmas swastikas: German museum views ornaments over time 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Twenty-eight years later, many former East Germans are entering retirement on the poverty line. The tiny German town and the neo-Nazis 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The division of domestic labor in the East was more equitable, in part because of a system of state-funded creches that allowed East German women to remain a part of the workforce. What Does Socialism Have to Do With Sex? 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z He remembered the Allies’ surprise when, on Aug. 13, 1961, East German personnel began sealing off half the city. Vancouver, Wash., man gave Checkpoint Charlie its name as Berlin divided 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Later Friday, officials laid wreaths before a remnant of the Berlin Wall, which was breached under the pressure of peaceful East German protesters on this date in 1989, a year before the country was reunited. Looking to History and Recent Events, German Leaders Defend Democracy and Pluralism 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z As an intern for the East German government, in 1991 he turned a vacant former margarine factory into what’s now a leading alternative contemporary art space, Berlin’s Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art. New MOCA director Klaus Biesenbach embarks on a 'civic-minded' mission to steady the museum - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z But the show somehow hit a nerve with an East German audience that otherwise had a special love for escapist Viennese operetta. Critic's Notebook: As anti-Semitic hate crimes rise, a German production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' preaches tolerlance - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Ghodsee discusses several fascinating studies that suggested East German women reported higher levels of satisfaction, even the non-orgasmic kind, than their West German sisters. What Does Socialism Have to Do With Sex? 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Others weren’t so fortunate, he said, and were shot by East German guards. Vancouver, Wash., man gave Checkpoint Charlie its name as Berlin divided 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z His friend Sergei Roldugin said he had never seen Mr. Putin so emotional as when he spoke about those East German informants whose identities had been revealed. A Spy Story: Sergei Skripal Was a Little Fish. He Had a Big Enemy. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Former East Germans such as Ms. Merkel held fast to the notion that Germany must preserve a special relationship with Russia. Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin’s Nord Stream pipeline tightens complex ties 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Infrastructure in the former East German states was generally in better condition because large parts were replaced in a major renovation programme after German unification in the 1990s and 2000s, the report’s authors said. Bridges across Europe are in a 'dangerous state' warn experts 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Its boss Matthias Warnig, once an East German spy tasked with reporting on West German business, is seen as one of Berlin’s most formidable lobbyists. Friendship no more: how Russian gas is a problem for Germany 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Second, distance is everything these days, and the rulemakers seem so unnaturally terrified of driving distance they’ve decided to randomly test drivers at Carnoustie this week like East German female swimmers in the 1970s. One man's advanced formula to pick the Open winner - Golf Digest 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Unlike her E.U. counterparts, she directly experienced the daily humiliations of heavy censorship, police surveillance and, of course, closed borders that composed the East German state. Opinion | Merkel remains an essential presence in a free Europe 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z In 1982, a Turkish immigrant started a garden near the Berlin wall on a patch of East German land. 'My daring grandad grabbed a bit of East Berlin' 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Now the production team has been “able to spend time in the Stasi archives, to spend time with people who were on the East German side,” Mr Cornwell says. The death of the archetypal Russian villain 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z An East German guard shot him before he could make the climb. What the dismantling of the Berlin Wall can teach us as Trump tries to build his wall 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z East German players trained much harder than those in West Germany, but only qualified for a major tournament once. What makes a country good at football? 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Daniel Joseph Martinez traveled the length of the old Berlin Wall, which once kept Soviet-dominated East Germans from emigrating to democratic West Germany. 'Made in L.A. 2018': Why the Hammer biennial is the right show for disturbing times 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z And that is the way it should stay, said Dieter Dombrowski, who spent 20 months in an East German prison after getting caught trying to flee the country. Karl Marx’s German home town celebrates his 200th birthday with a Chinese statue — and a struggle 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z But generations of East Germans raised on Marx's teachings began recalling his lessons in the wake of the global financial crisis starting in 2007. Karl Marx is turning 200, and that's creating a stir in Germany, which was literally divided over his ideas 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z On the Western side of the wall, a crowd of hundreds gathered and chanted “murderers” at the East German guards. What the dismantling of the Berlin Wall can teach us as Trump tries to build his wall 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z “When I saw the masses of East German citizens there, I knew they were in the right.” Opinion | People power worked in Armenia. It won’t work everywhere. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z If so, then I believe the world records established by the East German women in the 1980s need to be removed. Track’s New Gender Rules Could Exclude Some Female Athletes 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z East Germans began doing the same after reunification. An exhibition on German saving, the virtue turned problem 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z "There's a lot of criticism about the excesses of the free market economy in Germany," said Robert Grimm, 43, director of political research at Ipsos in Germany and an East German by birth. Karl Marx is turning 200, and that's creating a stir in Germany, which was literally divided over his ideas 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z “Only three of the 60 state secretaries originate from the East. Of the 190 board seats of stock companies, just three are occupied by East Germans.” What the dismantling of the Berlin Wall can teach us as Trump tries to build his wall 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Jäger was guarding a border checkpoint on Nov. 9, 1989, in the hours after East German leaders had announced that the travel rules were changing. Opinion | People power worked in Armenia. It won’t work everywhere. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Unlike the East German before her, who were essentially "men" as a result of state-sponsored pharmaceutical engineering, Semenya is a natural. Track’s New Gender Rules Could Exclude Some Female Athletes 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z What manifested as cystic acne and big muscles in the '70s and '80s in East German athletes morphed into birth defects and long term, negative health impacts in the '90s through today. At the Heart of a Vast Doping Network, an Alias 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The Wall just plugged a large hole in the East German border and gave it a border equivalent to those in other Communist satellites such as Hungary and Czechoslovakia. What Border Agents Say They Want (It’s Not a Wall) 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Vladimir Putin, who had held a meaningless post in the East German provinces during his career in the KGB, was seen as the closest match to the fictional Stierlitz. Vladimir Putin’s politics of eternity | Timothy Snyder 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Among some current and former workers, there’s hunger for a government that protects them the way the old East German government used to — and the way they see Trump trying to do for U.S. workers. Trump’s tariffs are both threatening and familiar in steel hub of Germany’s once-communist east 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z “How does Bonn look at the world? Its aspirations were for unity and diversity, but you see that the Social Democrats haven’t figured out how to connect to East Germans.” Germany’s center-left helped salvage democracy after WWII. Now it is stuck in the past. 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z “Mack shouldn’t have been wrestling against the girls any more than the East German women shouldn’t have been showing up at competitions with chest hair and deep voices,” Mr. Baudhuin said. Mack Beggs, transgender wrestler, prompts questions about steroids, fairness 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z The only document he appears to have passed on to Agent Dymic was a photocopy of an article in the Sunday People about a bungled MI5 raid on the East German Embassy. The Czechoslovak spy who met Jeremy Corbyn 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z In the 60’s East German women looked like an evil scientist created them in a lab. Russian Fans at the Olympics Are Loud, Proud and Angry 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z The Daily Telegraph leads on demands for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to authorise the release of an East German file about him from the Cold War era. In a hurry? Here's what you need to know this morning 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z The remnants of that East German party grew into the Left Party, which now competes with the Social Democratics for votes. Germany’s center-left helped salvage democracy after WWII. Now it is stuck in the past. 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Most East German citizens were prohibited from living within three miles of the wall. Opinion | Recalling the Berlin Wall 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z One image lingers, he says: An empty Trabant, the standard East German car, parked under a tree in the West, its keys dangling from a branch. Germans Quietly Pass an Equinox of Unity, but the Walls Remain 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Call her a rare remnant of the East German sports machine. Claudia Pechstein Is a 45-Year-Old Olympian. So Why Is It So Tough to Cheer? 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z He tested positive for a chemical compound in Turinabol, a steroid used by East German athletes in the 1960s and weightlifters in recent years. 2 minor league players hit with drug bans 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z A study published in 2007 of 52 East German athletes who had been given anabolic steroids in the 1970s and 1980s concluded they had suffered serious health problems as a result. The use of banned drugs is rife in sport 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z In the final days of the wall, the irony of the East German border guard’s statement “and God said, ‘Let there be light,’ ” and Fisher’s reaction to it, was precious. Opinion | Recalling the Berlin Wall 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Ms. Köpping ended up touring the East to understand the grievances of East German men. Germans Quietly Pass an Equinox of Unity, but the Walls Remain 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The Soviet KGB, the East German Stasi, Cuban state security — many American intelligence pros ruefully concede that these services ran rings around Western counterparts, even if some of the regimes they served eventually collapsed anyway. Opinion | We are witnessing a democratic nightmare 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z At least 270 of them died trying to cross the border — East German soldiers were instructed to fire at any of their compatriots who attempted to escape the politically repressive and economically bankrupt system. As Germans celebrate the absence of the Berlin Wall, a new piece of it is discovered 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z It was expanded and topped with a wire barrier as part of efforts to prevent East Germans fleeing to the West. Newly discovered Berlin Wall segment to get protected status 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z “During the Cold War our adversaries were fairly readily identifiable, it was the Russians and the East Germans for example,” said Mr. Vickery, who is responsible for counterespionage. Cold War II: Spy Agency Sounds Alarm at Foreign-Interference Levels 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The East German leader Erich Honecker regarded him as a true revolutionary, like Fidel Castro, and his spies provided Palestinians with intelligence and weapons. How Arafat Eluded Israel’s Assassination Machine 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z An East German border guard was killed in a gunfight between the security forces and those helping the escape on the Western side. Secret Tunnel in Berlin Is an Echo From the Cold War 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The response was much more striking when Wolfram bought a 1960s-era East German motor scooter more than two years ago to decorate his nursing home. A German nursing home tries a novel form of dementia therapy: Re-creating a vanished era for its patients 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z A September 1985 memo to Bulgarian intelligence from the East German secret police served as a conduit. Fingerprints of Russian Disinformation: From AIDS to Fake News 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The East German women swimmers did not win a single gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics, but claimed 11 of 13 gold medals in Montreal four years later. Banned From Winter Olympics, Russia Faces Greatest Sports Crisis Since Soviet Era 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Revelations about the state-sponsored East German system of the 1970s and 1980s did not deter widespread use of banned substances. Did Russia Get Off Easy in Olympic Ban? Read the Fine Print 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Oral Turinabol was the key ingredient in the last known state-sponsored Olympic doping program, which propelled East German athletes to gold medals in the 1970s and 1980s. The Scientific American Guide to Cheating in the Olympics 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z East German soldiers were instructed to fire at any of their compatriots who attempted to escape the politically repressive and economically bankrupt system. A German nursing home tries a novel form of dementia therapy: Re-creating a vanished era for its patients 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Jakob Segal, an East German biologist who promoted the Soviet campaign, seized on growing doubts from a theory that the virus had jumped from African green monkeys to humans. Fingerprints of Russian Disinformation: From AIDS to Fake News 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z When American swimmers remarked that the East German women were the same size as the men, they were accused of being sore losers. Banned From Winter Olympics, Russia Faces Greatest Sports Crisis Since Soviet Era 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z In February 1985, Zehle admitted in court that he had conspired to deliver U.S. defense information to East German intelligence authorities. As he investigates Trump's aides, special counsel's record shows surprising flaws 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Mr Beaucamp, again writing in Sächsische Zeitung, asked why West Germans who do not know what to do with East German art are appointed to the highest positions in the region. Another look at East German art 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Many East Germans were both barred from watching most Hollywood movies and from traveling to the West until 1989, and those places seemed unimaginably far away to them. A German nursing home tries a novel form of dementia therapy: Re-creating a vanished era for its patients 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Some scholars suggest that the East German deflection of blame reverberates today in the form of a greater willingness to accept far-right nationalism. The Prophet of Germany’s New Right 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z And neither has the price tag to integrate these foreigners into German culture -- since most East Germans feel betrayed, forgotten and economically left behind. Opinion | A German Who Explains Trump 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z At the direction of the Justice Department’s internal security division, Mueller negotiated a plea agreement with an East German physicist named Alfred Zehle and his lawyer. As he investigates Trump's aides, special counsel's record shows surprising flaws 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z “Not curators and art historians but private collectors, all entrepreneurs, have done the greater deal for the recognition of, and reconciliation with, East German art.” Another look at East German art 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Former East Germans aren’t asking for secession, nor a special status. As Germany and Spain prove, history – with all its wounds – is not over | Natalie Nougayrède 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z This replica now being put on sale was built for electromagnetic tests, according to the documentation that comes with it, and comes complete with a vintage East German radio receiver to hear the iconic beeps. Sputnik for Sale, if You’ll Settle for a Beeping Replica 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Like all East German students, Merkel had to take compulsory courses in Marxism-Leninism. 5 things to know about Germany’s Angela Merkel 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The East German secret police went to extraordinary lengths to track down people who wrote letters to the BBC during the Cold War. The German schoolboy jailed for writing to the BBC 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z According to a recent poll, 74% of East Germans and 53% of West Germans say that the differences between them are “big” or “very big”. Another look at East German art 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Pilots in Pajamas was shown on East German television in early 1968, at which point the broadcast was picked up by U.S. military monitoring of the Communist nation's propaganda. The Incredible Story Behind a Haunting Picture of a POW in Vietnam 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Within seconds, rhythmic, noisy pulses were emanating from the East German speakers. Sputnik for Sale, if You’ll Settle for a Beeping Replica 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The plot revolves around a series of intelligence sources providing information about the Stasi, the East German Intelligence Service. Review: George Smiley returns in ‘A Legacy of Spies’ 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z For the next 15 years he worked as an electronics engineer, and against all the odds studied and got a PhD in East German literature. The German schoolboy jailed for writing to the BBC 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z The “wall in the mind” still makes many former East Germans feel like second-class citizens, their achievements unacknowledged in the united country. Another look at East German art 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z He would later find out that they were a team from East Germany, working on an East German television docu-series about the war, called Pilots in Pajamas. The Incredible Story Behind a Haunting Picture of a POW in Vietnam 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z George actually resigns in protest from the service in “Call” — the first of several such resignations/retirements over several books — but not before unraveling an East German spy ring. John le Carre fans, take note: Smiley’s still in the spy game 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Eager to counter East German propaganda that claimed his government was crawling with former Nazis, chancellor Konrad Adenauer created the Central Office, which was to focus solely on bringing Nazis to justice. The last Nazi hunters 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps it was because eight days earlier, on Nov. 9, East Germans walked for the first time through the Berlin Wall. Opinion | Ukraine has finally removed all 1,320 Lenin statues. Our turn. 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z This is true of East German art as well. Another look at East German art 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Photos from the early 1980s show dos Santos standing with East German officials at the Brandenburg Gate, addressing a Soviet Communist Party congress in Moscow and sitting with Castro, the Cuban leader, in Havana. He outlasted Reagan, Castro and Gorbachev. Now Angola’s 74-year-old leader is stepping down. 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The most famous — the allegation that “the CIA created AIDS” — was started in a Soviet-linked Indian newspaper and was repeated by a team of East German scientists. Opinion | If this were the Cold War, America would be poised to lose 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Eventually, he was police chief for 10 years in the East German city of Eisenhüettenstadt. At the Site of Germany’s Biggest World War II Battle, a Changing View of History 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Thousands of young East Germans convinced themselves that the Stones really would play. Rocking the Stasi - BBC News 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z The Albertinum, a museum of modern art in Dresden, recently hosted a symposium on the status of its East German art collection. Another look at East German art 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z He drew roaring approval from East German residents by saying, “When the historic moment allows it, let us have the unity of our country.” Helmut Kohl, German statesman who united his country after Cold War, dies at 87 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z President George Bush for unification by assuring him the former East German states would be integrated into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and transformed from Warsaw Pact adversaries to reliable allies. Helmut Kohl, Germany’s ‘chancellor of unity’ who was marred by scandal, dies at 87 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The East German Army held elaborate swearing-in ceremonies here, complete with torchlight parades. At the Site of Germany’s Biggest World War II Battle, a Changing View of History 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z That kind of brutal reprisal was meant to deter all young East Germans from dancing to Western "imperialist" tunes. Rocking the Stasi - BBC News 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Kohl also made the political decision to grant East Germans immediate economic parity, even though his central bankers told him of the massive economic dislocation this would incur. Obituary: Helmut Kohl - BBC News 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z When Mr. Kohl made a dramatic appearance before 50,000 East Germans in Dresden just six weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he was greeted with tears and chants of “our chancellor.” Helmut Kohl, German statesman who united his country after Cold War, dies at 87 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z As his vision of unification unfolded, Kohl promised anxious East Germans that they would soon see “blossoming landscapes” after the rusted wreckage of their planned economy had withered away. Helmut Kohl, Germany’s ‘chancellor of unity’ who was marred by scandal, dies at 87 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The East Germans also proudly displayed one of the powerful lights Marshal Georgi P. Zhukov used to illuminate the battlefield when he ordered his troops to advance in the predawn hours of April 16, 1945. At the Site of Germany’s Biggest World War II Battle, a Changing View of History 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z He knew why the East German authorities would stop them if they recognised them. Rocking the Stasi - BBC News 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Many of the victims were shot by East German guards, drowned trying to swim to the West or set off anti-personnel mines. East German border claimed 327 lives, says Berlin study - BBC News 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z |
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