| 单词 | East Germany |
| 例句 | The proportional burden on South Korea, some studies have found, would be two and a half times greater than on West Germany after it absorbed the former East Germany. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She left her family back in what was the old East Germany to make enough money to send for her husband and three grown children. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost thirty years earlier, East Germany's communist leaders had put up the Berlin Wall to dam the river of emigrants trying to leave the country. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z East Germany's most skilled and talented people voted with their feet, choosing to rebuild from scratch rather than adjust to life under communism. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Two months later, East Germany held free elections. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In 1960, 500 people left East Germany every single day; that year, more than 180,000 people made the trek from East to West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He said he had grown up in a large, comfortable apartment in Pyongyang and had followed the privileged educational trajectory of North Korea’s elites, studying in East Germany and the Soviet Union. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z 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 Hidden in wooden crates, they were then loaded onto trains that had to pass through communist East Germany—and risk being detected—before reaching the American sector in Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The revolt against communism that destroyed East Germany finally spread to the Soviet Union itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union controlled East Germany, where it installed a Communist government under a dictatorship. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Like the Stasi in East Germany, much of the KGB's work in Russia had nothing to do with chasing foreign spies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They had crossed safely into East Germany and reached the outskirts of Berlin, the city's lights visible in the distance. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After years in which life seemed to stand still behind the Iron Curtain, communist East Germany unraveled with breathtaking speed. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Closing the border between East and West Berlin was not the idea of the KGB, the Soviet army, or anyone in the Kremlin: It was the brainchild of Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's hard-line communist leader. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Protests against the communist government broke out all over East Germany in the fall of 1989. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z East Germany's master spy built the largest espionage network in the entire world, recruiting thousands of spies, informers, and watchers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I have visited their graves in East Germany.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z East Germany was down below, and the lights were on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Four flagrant examples are the comparison of South Korea with North Korea, the former West Germany with the former East Germany, the Dominican Republic with Haiti, and Israel with its Arab neighbors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To keep East Germany weak economically, the Soviets stripped anything of value from their zone of occupation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Those artifacts were later brought to East Germany, where some grew mold in dank storage rooms while others cracked or broke into pieces owing to rough handling, Professor Koch said. Are African Artifacts Safer in Europe? Museum Conditions Revive Debate 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z I got there and I felt I understood it even though I'd never been to East Germany. Braddock's LaToya Ruby Frazier takes on Levi's and 'ruin porn' chic 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z It fell in Czechoslovakia that November, in Romania that December, and in East Germany, Bulgaria and Hungary the following year. This Hill staffer (maybe) saved the free world. But all he wants is a career in theater. 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z C., the antihero of Hilbig’s novel, is an alcoholic writer who leaves East Germany a few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Nina Hoss stars as the title character, a doctor banished from a prestigious Berlin institution to a pediatric hospital in the countryside of East Germany in 1980. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘S.N.L.’ and ‘Barbara’ 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Communist authorities banned him from performing in East Germany in 1977 after he expressed support for a dissident folk singer and he asked to leave soon after. Actor Manfred Krug, a star in East and West Germany, dies aged 79 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Politically she was of the old-fashioned left, a sympathiser of Moscow, East Germany and Cuba, and she was certainly not in the vanguard of the rising feminism of the late 50s and early 60s. Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z But even with work well under way, the German government noted early last year: "..two worrying tendencies with regard to the former East Germany - a belittlement and romanticization of the dictatorship, or total ignorance." Stasi victims still in trauma as Germany cheers 25 years since wall fell 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z You can find out at the DDR Museum, a fascinating, immersive, hands-on experience that serves as an excellent introduction to life in East Germany. 36 Hours in Berlin 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z But living in 1960s communist East Germany, with the many restrictions imposed by its centrally planned economy, when the chef decided to try Japanese cuisine he found his options were limited. Film celebrates East German chef who cooked up Japanese storm in cold war 2012-11-07T19:08:06Z Wolfram Koeppe, the Met curator who assembled “Making Marvels,” remembers seeing the “Dresden Green” as a child in the 1960s, when Dresden was part of East Germany but was opened to travel from West Germany. Science, Splendor and ‘Dresden Green’ to Impress a Sovereign 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, millions of residents of what had been East Germany moved west. Ghost Cities Of 2100 2010-07-27T16:00:00Z Many workers from the former East Germany went west to seek better employment opportunities. An Electric Temple of Culture Fires Up 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z After a time, East Germany's protestant church provided rooms where punks could meet and play music, feeling it was its duty to shelter youths discriminated against. Archive immortalizes East German Punk rock scene 2011-07-20T11:09:05Z Based in the former Communist East Germany, the firm employed more than 60 people at its peak, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Wanted: savvy gnome maker to take over historic German firm 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z His family, with five or six children, fled west to Tubingen in 1945 as the Russian Army advanced but still wound up in East Germany as World War II ended. Sigmar Polke, Whose Sly Works Shaped Contemporary Painting, Dies at 69 2010-06-12T02:59:00Z Sonya spent the Cold War in East Germany, where she slipped into her final role: As an author under the nom de plume Ruth Werner, she turned her adventuresome life into best sellers. The Housewife Who Was a Spy 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Weissflog, who grew up in the former East Germany, began to weep as she recalled how she sang onstage at the Palast when she was 14 years old. A New Museum Opens Old Wounds in Germany 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z This part of the museum is also full of objects from East Germany that people either donated or sold to the curators. Back in the GDR: Berlin's East Germany museum 2013-03-13T12:59:21Z Director Christian Petzold seeks to recreate the political oppression of Communist East Germany through a central character who is banished from Berlin to the provinces because she requests a move to West Germany. Theme of captivity dominates Berlin films in 2012 2012-02-13T12:35:51Z One detects a bitter compulsion to confront Western readers with the devastation of East Germany, in case those readers had luxuriously forgotten or ignored it. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Few secret operations into East Germany could take place without the connivance of the BND. John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself' 2013-04-12T20:01:01Z The action is transplanted from Freiburg to Berlin—to what was then a divided Berlin, with West Berlin isolated and surrounded by Soviet-controlled East Germany. Review: Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” Is the Cinematic Equivalent of a Designer Che T-shirt 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The show examines how the relatively small city in the former East Germany became a home to some of the most iconic works of Europe’s leading artists. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z A general view inside a room displaying the story of foreign people from Vietnam in former East Germany, at the exhibition 'Multicultural Germany, A Country Of Immigration' in Berlin, Friday, May 20, 2016. German history museum explores 6 decades of immigration 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The one voice that wasn't heard was that of teachers of Marxism-Leninism in East Germany. Fastest! Tallest! Marxist! The visual art of Phil Collins 2011-02-06T22:29:00Z They’re selling arms to the enemy because East Germany is dead broke, in debt to the West, cut loose by Mikhail Gorbachev’s Soviet Union. Review: ‘Deutschland 86,’ an East-West Thriller, Looks South 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Friday night brings the filmmaker's psychoanalysis documentary "Empathy" and the short "The Sleepers"; Saturday night's screening is the experimental documentary about East Germany, "DDR/DDR." Italians and a full plate of revivals 2010-11-19T01:01:00Z Having grown up and lived in East Germany before reunification, Richard and his friends are closer, perhaps, than many Europeans to understanding the uneasiness of the refugees’ lives. Lives Other Than His Own 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z When East Germany went modernist itself, in the late 1950s, it placed great significance on its ability to mass produce light, synthetic, vaguely futuristic goods, with the ubiquitous Trabant a source of state pride. When is an East German plastic eggcup a piece of communist nostalgia? 2012-07-09T15:17:32Z If passers-by on a busy bridge in central Berlin on a recent summer afternoon recognized East Germany’s most famous songwriter, poet and dissident, they did not show it. Germany Celebrates a Singer Who United East and West 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z In the West, he also becomes a compulsive visitor of peep shows, which didn’t exist in East Germany. When the Nation That Shaped You Is Falling Apart 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Vistitsky served in a Soviet battalion in East Germany in the mid-1980s, not far from where KGB officer Putin served around the same time. Russia's unlikely protest song rocks rally 2012-02-05T13:38:07Z For instance, in Berlin, advance tickets are now recommended for the DDR Museum, with displays about life in the former East Germany. What’s new in Germany and the Low Countries for 2019 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, East Germany managed to win 572 medals at the winter and summer Olympics in its 41 years in existence. Experience: I didn’t know I was being doped 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Yugoslavia was the most liberal of Socialist republics, and an easier place to be an independent artist or architect than the Soviet Union, Romania, Albania or even East Germany. When Yugoslavia’s Bright Future Was Fashioned in Concrete 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The musical follows a transgender frontwoman of an East Germany rock band. John Cameron Mitchell to Reprise 'Hedwig' role on Broadway 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Some 300 trainloads of war booty were brought back from St Petersburg and Moscow in 1958 as a gesture of friendship towards the then communist East Germany. Russia-Germany row over war loot mars exhibition opening 2013-06-21T18:32:00Z In East Germany, despite official talk of “solidarity” with fellow communist nations, foreign workers were largely kept apart from Germans. German history museum explores 6 decades of immigration 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z ‘This was once one of the dirtiest areas in East Germany,” says Sören, my tour guide from IBA Tours, as our bikes swoosh through the Lusatian Lake District. East Germany’s old mines transformed into new lake district 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Today the former East Germany is on the road to becoming the Wild East for writers from the west. What they're reading in Germany 2011-03-18T12:29:32Z Published in what was East Germany, War Primer used second world war photographs, mostly from Life magazine, and accompanied each one with a short rhyming epigram, by Brecht, as comment and counterpoint. Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers 2013-04-17T17:23:17Z Films from and about East Germany constitute a shadow realm within the larger world of German cinema. Christian Petzold Directs ‘Barbara,’ Starring Nina Hoss 2012-12-07T23:53:01Z The East Side Gallery was transformed into an open-air gallery months after East Germany opened its borders on Nov. 9, 1989, and is now covered in colorful murals painted by about 120 artists. Berlin wall removal project stalls amid protests 2013-03-01T13:58:17Z 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 The best director award went to German filmmaker Christian Petzold for Barbara, about a woman plotting to escape communist East Germany. Jail docu-drama wins Berlin award 2012-02-19T12:16:54Z We are tipped off that Katrine may be concealing her real identity: in an early scene, she visits East Germany in disguise and calls herself Vera. Movie Review: In ‘Two Lives,’ a War Legacy Threatens a Norwegian Family 2014-02-28T00:16:38Z Marks said 13 of the judges came from countries that included Russia, Bulgaria and East Germany during one of the early competitions. Asian dancers dominating ballet competition 2010-06-21T19:24:00Z He vividly recalls that the men who once introduced themselves to him on a train in East Germany, inviting him to collaborate, were charming and erudite. Christian Petzold Directs ‘Barbara,’ Starring Nina Hoss 2012-12-07T23:53:01Z These gatherings soon attracted the attention of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi. Archive immortalizes East German Punk rock scene 2011-07-20T11:09:05Z Detour signs sent us through miles of farmland and nondescript villages displaying vestiges of the former East Germany — large concrete block apartment buildings. A cycling trail through Poland and Germany — and Soviet-era history 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z “It was an exact replica of East Germany,” Mr. Seyoum joked. The Woven Art of Laos 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z So she rented out her London flat and went to live in East Germany, to witness its final weeks. Lenin, mum and me – my communist childhood 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z The chorus and instrumentalists included performers from West and East Germany, Leningrad and London, Paris and New York. Watch 5 Moments When Classical Music Met Politics 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z East Germany imploded, but neither its creation nor its demise was as vacuous as the novel suggests. Tear Down That Will: An East German Guide to Breaking the Spirit 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z East Germany was just a few hours away - nuclear invasion was possible. ArtsBeat: The Spy Who Married Me: Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys on 'The Americans' 2013-01-24T17:18:07Z Richter, 80, who lives in Cologne, was born in Dresden and grew up in communist East Germany. Gerhard Richter painting fetches record price for living artist at auction 2012-10-13T12:04:30Z Nearby, Gabriele Stötzer’s works made of recycled consumer packaging are a response to the transition from communism to capitalism in the former East Germany. Did Someone With a Trust Fund Paint This? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Activists in East Germany managed to halt their destruction. Piecing Together the History of Stasi Spying 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z On the other hand, it’s not useful to assert that life expectancy in the former East Germany is higher than in the United States. Making Citizens’ Lives Better 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Hedwig gets the sex change to marry a man and escape East Germany. A millennial Hedwig? Darren Criss talks about a new generation rocking to this 'Angry Inch' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Other family members were forced to settle in East Germany. ‘King of grasses’ Kurt Bluemel, 81, who re-created a savannah for Disney, dies East Germany on the threshold of collapse may sound like a setting deep in the ash heap of history, but much later in the novel Franzen suggests the contemporary relevance of the communist regime. With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Set in East Germany in the 1980s, “Barbara” stars Nina Hoss, at once reserved and emotionally transparent, as a doctor who’s forced to choose between her desire for freedom and the lives of others. Critic’s Notebook: Toronto Film Festival’s 11 Busy Days 2012-09-15T00:32:33Z She studied physics in college, she said, “because even East Germany wasn’t capable of suspending basic arithmetic and the rules of nature.” ‘The Chancellor’ Portrays Angela Merkel as a Droll Source of Sanity in a Mad World 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z That novel was inspired by the time le Carré spent running agents between West and East Germany, which left him with a deep love of German culture and language. Tinker, Tailor, Writer, Spy 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z Presented by Gavin Esler, a BBC journalist, “The Big Steal” traces the roots of Putin’s obsession with Ukraine, and how his ascent to power began when he was a KGB officer based in East Germany. 6 Podcasts About Political Scandals and Upheaval 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z I did that in East Germany as it was collapsing in 1990. It’s No Secret That Espionage Is This Collector’s Passion 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z And you don't want to get into that thing in East Germany where everybody had to drive a Trabant. Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh 2012-06-02T19:53:37Z Of course, the most famous wall from Cold War times is the 96-mile-long barrier that was built in 1961, encircling West Berlin and making it an island of freedom in communist East Germany. In Europe’s border walls, a divided history and a united future 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z His grandfather survived more than one concentration camp and spent several years in exile in China before returning to East Germany in the late 1940s. In Germany, a Jewish Millennial Argues That the Past Isn’t Past 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z It's no wonder that some people from the former East Germany find the experience somewhat upsetting. Back in the GDR: Berlin's East Germany museum 2013-03-13T12:59:21Z Kutzke learnt yodelling as a child growing up in a rural community in communist East Germany, "where there was very little else to do", she says. Berlin is alive with the sound of urban yodelling 2013-02-08T11:38:13Z But the political climate in East Germany didn't suit her, and her outspoken criticism of the Communist officials didn't suit the government there either. Ingrid Pitt, doyenne of Hammer horror films, dies 2010-11-23T23:30:00Z With the Soviet Union forcing its system on East Germany and several neighboring countries, “an iron curtain” had descended across Europe, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said. The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago And in the Montreal Gazette, Bruce Arthur noted China’s success by stating, “The last similar factory was East Germany, and their hulking man-women.” Ye Shiwen swims like a girl 2012-08-02T15:25:00Z Once there, he saw that the Communist regime in East Germany offered a living illustration of totalitarian repression, and this became his new subject. Timothy Garton Ash Puts Forth a Free-Speech Manifesto 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z He emphasized that his views were rooted in his experiences in East Germany, a one-party state with an omnipresent domestic spying apparatus. A German Painter’s New Rule: ‘Never Answer a Critic’ 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Shot in black and white, "Spy" tells the story of a burned-out British spy, Alec Leamas, who is sent to East Germany to sow disinformation. 5 best movies based on John le Carr? books 2011-12-15T20:59:21Z Schroder fled East Germany with his father as a child, taking the name Kennedy at the age of 14 when he falsified his identity on an application to summer camp. Schroder by Amity Gaige – review 2013-03-29T17:19:01Z "His greatest accomplishment was that he was first a star in East Germany and then became a star in all of Germany," said Berlin Mayor Michael Mueller. Actor Manfred Krug, a star in East and West Germany, dies aged 79 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Below are edited excerpts from the conversation: After moving to America from East Germany when he's young, Eric changes his last name, from Schroder to Kennedy, and never tells anyone, including his father. ArtsBeat: Desperate Dad: Amity Gaige Talks About 'Schroder' 2013-02-06T19:55:31Z Shooting in an abandoned prison close to Magdeburg in the former East Germany, Meise captures the slow course of incarcerated time, as well as social change. ‘Great Freedom’ and the Long Shadow of an Anti-Gay Law in Germany 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z “Reunification made the opportunity for East Germany to discover Weill, starting with the European Weill,” Dr. Kowalke said. Kurt Weill: How Germany Finally Unearthed a National Treasure 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z It was a belief he had put into spectacular public practice in 1989, when Communism in East Germany began to crumble and he used his singular renown there to avert mass bloodshed. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z 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 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 She fled East Germany in 1953 and her possessions were seized by the government. ArtsBeat: Eight Old Masters to Be Repatriated to the Netherlands 2011-06-30T16:00:38Z He performed at the Berlin State Opera in his native East Germany and at Milan’s La Scala, as well as a 25-year run at the famed Salzburg festival. German opera singer, conductor Schreier dies at 84 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z The Berlin Wall had fallen almost a decade earlier, but Leipzig, in the former East Germany, still left something to be desired when it came to an opera star’s material needs. Jessye Norman Rejected These Recordings. Should They Be Released? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z In the early 1980s, a nascent film festival in West Berlin decided, as an act of political protest as much as aesthetic choice, to show movies from East Germany. At Berlin's Interfilm, a modern movie confab under history's shadow 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z In "The Lives of Others" there is a fairly recent example of another film that looks at repressions and mistrust in East Germany and ended up winning the foreign-language film Oscar. The Carpetbagger: Forget the East-West Divide; It's Berlin Vs. Munich 2012-12-20T20:00:25Z “He was not a Communist, as far as I can tell, and if he had been, the book would have been republished” in East Germany, he said. A Gritty Weimar Portrait of Youth Gangs, Restored to Renewed Acclaim 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Like their Nazi precursors, the Communist rulers of East Germany scorn the subjectivism and decadence of modernist art. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z This being former East Germany, there is the inevitable nudist area, too. 10 of Europe’s oddest attractions and events 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z "What about people from the former East Germany?" Back in the GDR: Berlin's East Germany museum 2013-03-13T12:59:21Z In East Germany, the topic was simply taboo. 750,000 Germans Fled East Prussia in 1945. A Novelist Imagines One Family’s Exodus. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Across the country, but primarily in the former East Germany, there are more than 4,000 protected monuments to their memory. For This Museum, Russian-German Collaboration Got Awkward 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Leaving the stage, Springsteen and his manager told each other they felt East Germany was about to change dramatically. Book asks if Bruce Springsteen helped bring down the Berlin Wall 2013-06-26T16:43:18Z Born in 1939 in Dresden, Germany, and raised in what later became East Germany, Mr. Penck had no formal training and little knowledge of contemporary artistic developments in the West. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Trained as a city planner in Communist East Germany, Wüst began to use a camera in 1972 to record and study urban development in a straightforward, inexpressive manner. Ulrich Wüst at Christopher Grimes Gallery: A portrait of obsolescence 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Le Carré, who penned the book while working for MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service, peppers the novel with clues about the true nature of Leamas’s mission, which takes him into Communist East Germany. New & Noteworthy, From Black Emancipators to Love and Desire 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Once in Europe I hitched across East Germany to Italy and Greece, and finally by train to Lisbon, Portugal, having crossed the earth's largest land mass without flying from the surface. I Crossed the World 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z After German reunification, lawmakers voted to tear down that building and construct a facsimile of the original schloss — a decision many still see as an erasure of East Germany’s history. Humboldt Forum in Berlin Finally Opens (Kind of) 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Von Donnersmarck’s first feature, “The Lives of Others,” unpacked some of the moral baggage of the former East Germany and laid out the contents in clear, conventional cinematic language. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z He was famous in the Soviet Union and East Germany and all over the Communist world. Tom Hanks: By the Book 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z In what was East Germany, “ostalgie” — a portmanteau of the words for “east” and “nostalgia” — is alive and well in tourism, fashion and nightclubs. In Poland, Communist-Era Restaurants Are Perfect for the Moment 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Someone stuck a wry sign on the fence with a quote spoken by the Communist leader of East Germany just before the Berlin Wall went up in 1961: “No one intends to build a wall.” Lovers kept apart by coronavirus reunited as border fence comes down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z With “Barbara” Mr. Petzold said he took pains to avoid what he considered the clichéd iconography of East Germany: “the Wall and the soldiers in gray, the basement prisons, the re-education camps.” Christian Petzold Directs ‘Barbara,’ Starring Nina Hoss 2012-12-07T23:53:01Z There was a lot of talk back then about what the new country would look like and how East Germany would reinvent itself. Overnighter: North of Berlin, a Quiet Land of Lakes 2013-05-23T22:59:37Z Its reconstruction took a different form: the sterile apartment blocks that became emblematic of the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany. In Munich and Dessau, Art and Design Call. But History Is Even More Compelling. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z He then travelled to East Germany and saw Dresden, whose destruction was the subject of a forthcoming film for which he was slated to write the score. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Three of the four artists — Mr. Lueg, a Düsseldorf native, was the exception — were from East Germany, from which they fled before the Berlin Wall went up in 1961. ‘Living With Pop’: Capitalist Realism at Artists Space 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Others said the novella was insensitive toward those who had genuinely suffered under Communism in East Germany. Christa Wolf wins Thomas Mann literature prize 2010-10-25T16:56:00Z Vogler is a film projector repairman who visits decaying movie houses as he travels the ghostly border zone between West and East Germany. The stories behind ‘Paris, Texas’ and more of director Wim Wenders’s films 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z A biographical portrait and a work of sociopolitical archaeology, “Karl Marx City” is an essayistic, quietly moving look at another lost world, the former East Germany, where Ms. Epperlein grew up. A Guide to Enjoying the Final Stretch of the New York Film Festival 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z During his country’s reunification several years later, Mr. Grass spoke out against the “annexation” by prosperous West Germany of poorer East Germany, comparing it to Nazi expansionism. Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The German security services had warned her not to enter East Germany: "They thought I might be abducted back to Romania." Herta Müller: a life in books 2012-11-30T22:55:01Z It's an appreciation for the fact that people in East Germany were not simply puppets but active participants in their lives. Back in the GDR: Berlin's East Germany museum 2013-03-13T12:59:21Z They live in an East Germany that has not yet been walled off from the West. ‘Edge of Eternity’ Completes Ken Follett Trilogy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z All the focus was on reunification and the subcultures of dissent that existed in East Germany – be it the Protestant church or punks. Fastest! Tallest! Marxist! The visual art of Phil Collins 2011-02-06T22:29:00Z This formidable doorstop by the Faulkner of East Germany can finally stop our American doors. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z He translated Herman Melville in East Germany, but Faulkner stirred him most. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z A specialist in the music of Central European composers — notably Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mahler and Bruckner — he had built a respectable if not scintillating career amid the musical and political repressions of East Germany. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z He was most apprehensive about showing the film in the former East Germany. Christian Petzold Directs ‘Barbara,’ Starring Nina Hoss 2012-12-07T23:53:01Z Their heroic efforts recall the "puzzle women" of Nuremberg, who reassembled shredded Stasi files after the end of communism in East Germany. Stolen memorials: melted down means lost for ever 2012-06-10T17:10:01Z While East Germany had a slightly less restrictive version on its books, West Germany kept the strict Nazi legislation until 1969, when it was first reformed. ‘Great Freedom’ and the Long Shadow of an Anti-Gay Law in Germany 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z “My Country Is Tibet,” Mr. Lhagyari’s film, matched him with Dirk Simon, whose nonfiction “Between the Lines,” about border guards in East Germany, grew out of his own young adulthood there. BYkids Pairs Beginning and Professional Filmmakers 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Born in Dresden in 1932, one year before Hitler took power, he left East Germany for the West in 1961, the year the Berlin Wall went up, and never saw his parents again. Gerhard Richter Is Celebrated With German Art Shows 2012-02-19T18:09:51Z In this case, the posters also were not officially expropriated by East Germany, but simply ended up there. German court mulls restitution of Nazi-seized art 2012-03-15T16:04:13Z Through her performances and flashbacks, we find out more about Hedwig’s back story, and how her childhood in Communist East Germany led to her passion for American pop music. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Arrow’ and ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z But because the work had been stolen from Weimar, which was then in communist East Germany, the government there lobbied for its return. A Portrait of Rembrandt Goes on Show. But Did He Paint It? 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Three days later, Saul leaves on a research trip to East Germany. Crossing Abbey Road: It’s More Dangerous Than You Might Think 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z But he just got back from East Germany, Saul insists. Review | In ‘The Man Who Saw Everything,’ Deborah Levy questions our notions of reality 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The destination was hardly an exotic one — East Germany in 1990 — but it signaled the beginning of Ms. Tokarczuk’s love affair with travel and a delectable way of writing about it that continues to evolve. Olga Tokarczuk’s Book ‘Flights’ Is Taking Off 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The other half conveys a more complicated message, the same message as Third Generation East: that East Germany lives on in many ways and reunification remains very much an unfinished business. Back in the GDR: Berlin's East Germany museum 2013-03-13T12:59:21Z In 2018, he told journalists from the newspaper Handelsblatt that political correctness was restricting free speech and that it reminded him of the authoritarian system in the former East Germany, where he grew up. A German Painter’s New Rule: ‘Never Answer a Critic’ 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z A friend and I were traveling in Germany and decided to explore West Berlin — at that time an island of freedom in the middle of Communist-controlled East Germany. Freedom to vote: It's more than just a concept | Op-Ed 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z A former member of communist East Germany's Stasi secret police has been charged with murder, for allegedly killing a man who had been let through the Berlin Wall in 1974. Former Stasi officer charged with 1974 Berlin Wall murder 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z The interim move takes the club from the former East Germany into the west of once-divided Berlin. Fan fervor assured at rare Champions League home games for Newcastle, Lens and Union Berlin 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z Then, Union was playing behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany, outside the top tier, and known as SC Motor Berlin. $100M men Kane and Bellingham give good value to Bayern and Madrid in Champions League debut wins 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z The law also offers compensation for gay soldiers who served in East Germany’s National People’s Army until Germany’s unification in 1990. Germany receives 178 compensation applications from gay servicepeople over discrimination 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Eyeing potential victories in the former East Germany, the AfD has vowed to foment a “political earthquake” in the months ahead. Rise of Far Right Leaves Germany’s Conservatives at a Crossroads 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The Stasi was notorious for its surveillance of East Germany's citizens, many of whom were pressed into spying on each other. Former Stasi officer charged with 1974 Berlin Wall murder 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z But Teske and Nickel’s experience has aroused fears in the German capital that the far right has gained a greater foothold in some parts of the former East Germany than many thought. Two teachers called out far-right activities at their German school. Then they had to leave town. 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Russian President Vladimir Putin’s KGB years in East Germany offer a window into his crackdown on protests, war on Ukraine and yearning for empire. Sleepless in Kyiv: In wartime capital, the stress of long fight weighs on everyone. Somehow, people cope 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z He complained the bank was dominated by “Communist Party hacks” who were “like an in-house KGB or Gestapo or Stasi” - the secret police of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and communist-era East Germany. Canada suspends work with Chinese-founded development bank while it investigates complaints 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z He complained that the bank was dominated by “Communist Party hacks” who were “like an in-house KGB or Gestapo or Stasi” -— the secret police of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Communist-era East Germany, respectively. Canadian quits Chinese-founded development bank, complains ‘Communist Party hacks’ dominate it 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z This credulity suggests the story may be autobiographical, as does Katharina’s job working in a theater around the end of East Germany, something Erpenbeck also did. Achtung, baby: Is Jenny Erpenbeck's tale of doomed romance the new Great German Novel? 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z East Germany was a communist dictatorship until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and many people there lost their jobs after Germany’s 1990 reunification. Two teachers called out far-right activities at their German school. Then they had to leave town. 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z The city of Berlin was in East Germany, but its western “zones” remained in the hands of the US, Britain, and France, the phenomenon a strange relic of the immediate aftermath of the war. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, the Soviet occupation zone, which became the communist satellite of East Germany, was left with little to sustain itself. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Despite efforts to align income, employees in former East Germany still make less money and have a lower living standard. East German workers strike, claiming they are paid less than counterparts in the west 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Around 50 countries took part with the Soviets dominating with 126 golds followed by East Germany with 50. Russia to launch Friendship Games after 40-year gap - sports minister 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Earlier this month, Germany gave Poland permission to send to Ukraine five MiG-29s, which had been part of the air force of East Germany during the Cold War. Donated MiG jets will not give Ukraine air superiority against Russia, experts say 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z In the end, the Soviets abandoned the blockade, and West Berlin became a unique pocket of the western camp in the midst of communist East Germany. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1989, Hungary and East Germany opened their borders, allowing their citizens to come and go freely. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z This propensity for what Ms. Schneidewind calls “historical hoarding” means that many Soviet memorials in East Germany contain Stalin’s name nearly 70 years after the dictator was largely purged from public spaces in Russia itself. ‘Learn From Pain’: Why Germany Protects Soviet War Memorials 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Last week, Poland received approval to send Ukraine five additional MiG-29s that were inherited from East Germany during the Cold War and needed Berlin’s blessing to export. Western Weapons Supplies Fall Short of Ukraine’s Needs, Documents Show 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z Merkel, 68, was the first woman to lead Germany and the first chancellor who grew up behind the Iron Curtain in communist East Germany. Ex-leader Merkel to be decorated with highest German honor 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z This development caused considerable dismay to hard-line Communist leaders in countries like East Germany, where the threat of Soviet intervention had always been the bulwark against the threat of reform. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The permission was needed because Germany used to own the Soviet-designed MiG 29 planes, which were part of communist East Germany’s military fleet. Germany approves Poland’s request to send jets to Ukraine 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z She said she had lost track of Putin — who went on to serve as a KGB operative in East Germany — until seeing him beside Russian President Boris Yeltsin on television in the late 1990s. In old, feel-good story, Putin bought teacher an apartment. He didn’t. 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Rep. Chris Stewart compared the government’s pressure attempts to East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, which would pressure newspapers to hinder positive coverage of regime skeptics. Weaponization hearing hears evidence of White House, CDC, Fauci censorship 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z For more than three decades, it stood just behind the wall which divided West and East Germany. King Charles praises Ukraine support on state visit to Germany 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Poland has around 28 MIG-29s, most of which it received from Germany after it absorbed East Germany and disbanded the Soviet-equipped air force there. Poland Says It Will Arm Ukraine With Warplanes, Raising Stakes 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Persecuted by the Nazis and carefully watched by the Communist secret police in the former East Germany, the group struggled for decades to be given equivalent status to Germany’s other religious communities. Germany Mourns ‘Horrific Act’ After Gunman Kills 6 at Jehovah’s Witness Hall 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Three decades later, Mr. Hébras testified in what was then East Germany against Heinz Barth, an SS sergeant who had participated in the massacre at Oradour. Robert Hébras, last survivor of infamous massacre in France, dies at 97 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z We are in East Germany right after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and it is a hot summer. Five key takeaways from the Berlin Film Festival 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Hans Modrow, who served as East Germany’s last communist leader during a turbulent tenure that ended in the country’s first and only free election, died Feb. 11. Hans Modrow, last communist leader of East Germany, dies at 95 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z If so, the fallout may add to the list of consequences that Russian President Vladimir Putin — a former KGB officer in East Germany — failed to anticipate when he ordered the invasion of Ukraine. In wake of Ukraine war, U.S. and allies are hunting down Russian spies 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Yet President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who started his career as a K.G.B. agent in Communist East Germany, took the opposite tack: He made Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, a priority target. A Russian Mole in Germany Sows Suspicions at Home, and Beyond 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z He was appointed prime minister on Nov. 18, and in that role oversaw the last Communist cabinet under the leadership of Egon Krenz, East Germany’s last party general secretary. Hans Modrow, 95, One of East Germany’s Last Communist Leaders, Is Dead 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The shocking presence of bright blue in a white gallery space also counteracts East Germany’s reputation as a colorless place. The Artists Questioning Nostalgia for East Germany’s Past 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Modrow, a reform-minded communist, took over East Germany shortly after the Berlin Wall fell and later invited opposition forces into the government, but could not slow the gathering momentum for German reunification. Hans Modrow, last communist leader of East Germany, dies at 95 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z Players didn’t want to sign for a club based in West Berlin, half of a divided city that was surrounded by communist-run East Germany. Man City case could join list of soccer’s biggest scandals 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z And the Social Democrats have many voters in the former East Germany, which has been more sympathetic to Moscow. Germany’s Reluctance on Tanks Stems From Its History and Its Politics 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Modrow, who talked of his political career in interviews over the years, was once asked about life in East Germany. Hans Modrow, 95, One of East Germany’s Last Communist Leaders, Is Dead 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Returning to Volkswagen in 1982, he promoted the Golf model, and the company began producing vehicles in China, the former East Germany and Eastern Europe. Carl Hahn Dies at 96; Made the VW Beetle Ubiquitous 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z A post in East Germany’s top leadership eluded him until he was made prime minister, a position that previously carried little clout, in November 1989 — days after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Hans Modrow, last communist leader of East Germany, dies at 95 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z Stalin used wartime conferences to demand a Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, eventually drawing Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and East Germany behind the “Iron Curtain.” Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z That seems to explain why Putin ended up being sent to Dresden in East Germany, which was not anyone would have called a prestigious assignment. Putin's brain and the Ukraine disaster: What does the Russian leader really want? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Many in this far-flung town of former Communist East Germany share his sense of nostalgia — albeit for a very different kind of past. The Prince, the Plot and a Long-Lost Reich 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z Many of those arrested had military training and included former German soldiers, including from the army of the former East Germany, and were known to have been heavily armed with weapons acquired illegally. Police in Germany Arrest Dozens Suspected of Planning a Coup 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The following month, he agreed to share power with the increasingly vocal opposition and moved up East Germany’s landmark first free election to March 1990, amid growing unrest. Hans Modrow, last communist leader of East Germany, dies at 95 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z He added, “He wanted to help all the athletes, especially the 1976 team, that had been betrayed by East Germany.” Werner Franke, Who Exposed East German Doping Program, Dies at 82 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z They soon won an award for designing Tegel Airport, one of the main gateways linking West Berlin, then an exclave of democratic West Germany deep inside Communist East Germany, with the rest of the world. German architect von Gerkan, who designed Berlin airport, dies at 87 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z In the same ceremony, a young Vladimir Putin, then working in East Germany for the KGB, received a bronze medal of merit. Flow of Russian gas and cash entangled German state in dependent web 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z She and Mr Putin both had direct experience of life in communist East Germany - she grew up there and he served there as a Soviet KGB officer, doing secret intelligence work. Ukraine war: Merkel says she lacked power to influence Putin 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z After his release, he worked as a machinist and joined a socialist party in the newly formed East Germany. Hans Modrow, last communist leader of East Germany, dies at 95 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z At the former border between West and East Germany, these thin out to three or four highways – and there's just one highway going to the Baltics. On Europe's new frontlines, red tape, politics and potholes hamper defence 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z In 1989, I had covered the revolutions in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania that signaled the coming collapse of the Soviet Union. Why I write about war — and why I can't escape it 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z What it means is that America is going to look a lot more like East Germany in the 1950s, '60s and '70s than an America we imagine as a democracy and free society. NeverTrumper Rick Wilson on the midterms: "Democrats are about to pay a terrible price" 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z In other instances, the resistance to authoritarian rule comes from below, from activists, unions or political groups — as happened in East Germany, South Africa and during the American civil rights movement. Leaders of democracies increasingly echo Putin in authoritarian tilt 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z In 1953, Poland's then-communist rulers relinquished all claims to war reparations under pressure from the Soviet Union, which wanted to free East Germany, also a Soviet satellite, from any liabilities. Polish foreign minister signs diplomatic note to Germany on WW2 reparations 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Other displays are dedicated to specific missions, like a re-creation of a tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall that allowed the CIA to wiretap key East Germany officials. The CIA renovated its museum. The public still can’t go see it. 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z It reminded him, he said, of growing up in East Germany, where citizens were more prepared for occasional blackouts. Coal stoves and wood thieves: Europe braces for winter without Russian gas 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z In 1953 Poland's then-communist rulers relinquished all claims to war reparations under pressure from the Soviet Union, which wanted to free East Germany, also a Soviet satellite, from any liabilities. Poland puts its WW2 losses at $1.3 trillion, demands German reparations 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Former Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Germany and worked as a scientist there, said that “Mikhail Gorbachev radically changed my life as well — I will never forget that.” Gorbachev remembered fondly in Germany for enabling unity 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z But it was another decision that really changed the world: the decision not to interfere when the big demonstrations against the communist government of East Germany built up in late 1989. John Simpson: Mikhail Gorbachev was a man of decency but not vision 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The story was rather different in East Germany, one of a number of communist states where independence movements were growing in 1989. Gorbachev: Little love for late Soviet leader in Russia's old empire 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z November 1989: The Berlin Wall falls as East Germany’s hard-line leadership opens its borders, a key moment in the collapse of communism in eastern Europe. Major events in the life and career of Mikhail Gorbachev 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Analysts have drawn a through line to Mr. Gorbachev’s agreement to withdraw hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops from East Germany and allow Germany’s reunification after George H.W. A reporter’s Siberian memories of Gorbachev, and that Pizza Hut commercial. 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Without that, Merkel said, “the peaceful revolution in East Germany would not have been possible.” Gorbachev remembered fondly in Germany for enabling unity 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Later that year, as pro-democracy protests swept across the Communist states of Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania, the world held its breath. Gorbachev ended Cold War but presided over Soviet collapse 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z November 1989 - Popular revolutions sweep away communist governments in East Germany and the rest of Eastern Europe. The Gorbachev era and the collapse of the Soviet Union 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z It culminated on 9 November 1989 when, following mass demonstrations, the citizens of East Germany, the most hard-line of the Soviet satellites, were allowed to cross freely into West Berlin. Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev - Soviet leader who helped end Cold War 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z In East Germany, tens of thousands of people, mostly young, were streaming out of the country heading west, mainly through Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z In 1989, pressure for change mounted in the communist countries of eastern Europe — including East Germany, whose long-serving hardline leadership had little appetite for reform. Gorbachev remembered fondly in Germany for enabling unity 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Months of earlier demonstrations in East Germany had called on the government to allow citizens to leave the country. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The photograph was taken by the French photojournalist Régis Bossu in 1979 in East Berlin, just a few miles from where it would later become famous, on the occasion of East Germany’s 30th anniversary. Dmitri Vrubel, Who Planted a Kiss on the Berlin Wall, Dies at 62 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z The wall was erected in 1963 by East Germany to keep its citizens from defecting to West Berlin. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z The son of Kenya’s first vice-president, and an avowed leftist, Mr. Odinga entered politics soon after returning to Kenya from his engineering studies in communist East Germany in the 1960s. Will the fifth time be the charm for Raila Odinga? 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z People in the former East Germany are nervous about antagonizing Russia, but a majority of the country backs the chancellor’s stand. Opinion | Germany is finally acting like Europe’s major power 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z In November 1989, the world—including foreign policy experts and espionage agencies from both sides of the Iron Curtain—watched in surprise as peaceful protesters in East Germany marched through checkpoints at the Berlin Wall. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Eventually, he was freed in a dramatic exchange on a bridge shrouded with fog between East Germany and West Berlin. Here are some prisoner swaps that freed Americans. 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z If the technological resources that are at the disposal of today’s governments had been available to the East Germany Stasi and the Romanian Securitate, would those repressive regimes have fallen? American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z The combination of martial arts mastery and his experience as a KGB case officer in East Germany enabled him to become a skilled manipulator of people. Review | A biography that gives Vladimir Putin the benefit of the doubt 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z It was the first time that imports had exceeded exports since 1991, the year after the reunification of the formerly socialist East Germany with the capitalist West Germany. Germany Posts First Monthly Trade Deficit in 30 Years 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Both teams qualified from the first group stage, but East Germany was eliminated in the next round while West Germany won the tournament with a 2-1 win over the Netherlands in the final. Bernd Bransch, East Germany’s World Cup captain, dies at 77 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Four Eastern Europeans held in the United States for espionage were traded for 25 people imprisoned in East Germany and Poland. Here are some prisoner swaps that freed Americans. 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z From a childhood living above the Ulster Bank in Belfast's York Street, via the London Blitz to four decades spent as an artist in communist East Germany, hers is a remarkable 20th Century life story. The Irish artist who charmed East German children 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z He was serving in East Germany as the Soviet Union collapsed and fled with his first wife to Hamburg to claim political asylum. Russian man accused of Alexander Litvinenko killing dies of Covid-19 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Like other regions of the former East Germany, Schwedt experienced widespread job losses after the collapse of communism. The Refinery Standing Between Germany and an Oil Embargo 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Bransch’s biggest career success came two years later when he won the Olympic gold medal with East Germany, coming on as a substitute in the 3-1 win over Poland in the final. Bernd Bransch, East Germany’s World Cup captain, dies at 77 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Chemezov is reported to be a former KGB agent who worked with Mr. Putin in East Germany before the fall of the Soviet Union. Renault strikes a deal to exit Russia, for now. 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z "One of the books was the Timid Little Rabbit. I liked it a lot, the way it was drawn... It's a very universal children's story and was an absolute bestseller in East Germany," she says. The Irish artist who charmed East German children 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z The Moskvich, which means “a native of Moscow”, was first manufactured in the Soviet Union and designed to be a sturdy, affordable passenger car, featuring parts made in Russia and communist East Germany. Return of the Moskvich: Russia to revive 'legendary' Soviet-era car after Renault exit 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z For years, she lived in East Germany, where she became pregnant, and returned to Ukraine to give birth alone. Ukraine war: Russia pushed back in north-east - report from front line 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The Left, whose roots include the Socialist Unity Party that controlled East Germany until reunification, has long had close ties to Moscow. Germany: Left party to hold leadership vote amid turmoil 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z He pointed out that Germany’s approval had been necessary for the Czech Republic to send T-72 tanks, made in former East Germany, to Ukraine. Calls to give heavy weapons to Ukraine divide Germany’s government 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z She evidently had a spiritual longing for Ireland but felt at one with her family and friends in England and had found her place in East Germany. The Irish artist who charmed East German children 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Then, there are those who have fondness for Russia rooted in travel and other exchange during East Germany’s communist days, he said. Russia finds sympathy in Germany’s east, Putin’s old stomping ground 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z That in turn set in motion a series of dominoes within the Eastern European countries, with Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Romania and Albania all seeking to escape Soviet dominance and Communist rule. Analysis: War, economy could weaken Putin’s place as leader 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday it was important that Germany supply only weapons that Ukraine's army will know how to use, such as older equipment from the army of former Communist East Germany. German arms maker offers weapons to Ukraine, German government source says 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z One agreed shipment publicised by the German government includes 56 Czechoslovak-made infantry fighting vehicles that used to be operated by East Germany and by Sweden. Czechs ship tanks, rocket launchers, artillery to Ukraine 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Behind the gleaming pipelines are the outlines of a shuttered nuclear power plant, once the biggest in the Communist East Germany. The End of the (Pipe)line? Germany Scrambles to Wean Itself Off Russian Gas 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z He had seen the disaster of a centralized planned economy, both in Russia and East Germany, where he served as a KGB agent between 1985 and 1990. The making of Vladimir Putin 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Putin, at the time an intelligence agent in East Germany, lived through the events and has drawn appropriate conclusions to maintain control now. Analysis: War, economy could weaken Putin’s place as leader 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Though Ukrainian, Kushnir’s family lived in East Germany before the collapse of the Soviet Union; his father was in the military and they returned to their homeland after the wall came down. Across L.A., Russian expats fear loss of livelihoods, and friendships, in wake of war in Ukraine 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Wales were dealt a difficult qualifying group alongside Czechoslovakia and East Germany, though they beat Czechoslovakia 1-0 in Cardiff in their opening game. Wales and the 1958 World Cup play-offs 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z He was raised in a part of the country that became the German Democratic Republic – known as "East Germany" – a vassal state dominated by the Soviet Union. Jack Barsky: What a Russian spy's job might look like now, from one of the KGB's 'best-trained' double agents 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Merkel, raised in East Germany, a Russian speaker, had formed a relationship with him. The making of Vladimir Putin 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Some of his audience grew up in communist East Germany behind the Berlin Wall. Ukraine's Zelensky calls on Germany to tear down Russian wall 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z It was a national holiday in the Soviet Union and in East Germany. The forgotten woman behind International Women’s Day 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Wales' players were full-time professionals at least and they took the lead in East Germany in front of a crowd of 110,000. Wales and the 1958 World Cup play-offs 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z In 1968, the United States was positioned, diplomatically and militarily, to counter Western incursions by Warsaw Pact nations, including from neighboring East Germany. Opinion | Putin’s Russia can cause a lot of suffering, but it’s not the Soviet Union 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Putin was a lieutenant colonel in the K.G.B., serving in the former East Germany, when glasnost was introduced. With New Limits on Media, Putin Closes a Door on Russia’s ‘Openness’ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z But the city itself lay 110 miles inside East Germany. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Six of those years were spent in East Germany. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite beating East Germany 4-1 in their final game, Murphy's side were eliminated - or so they thought. Wales and the 1958 World Cup play-offs 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Putin was by then a lieutenant colonel at the K.G.B.’s Dresden outpost, watching helplessly as protesters ransacked the local headquarters of the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police. Ukraine Invasion Tests the Ties That Bind Putin and Xi 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z "There is no justification for this blatant breach of international law, and I wholeheartedly condemn it," said Merkel, who grew up in the former communist East Germany and speaks fluent Russian. Merkel condemns Russian invasion as legacy comes under scrutiny 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Although the blockade had been lifted, the Soviet Union still controlled the government of East Germany. 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 Once the Fulda Gap in Germany was a worry of Cold War strategists, heavily defended by American troops to prevent the Warsaw Pact from rushing tanks from East Germany to the Rhine River. With the Ukraine Invasion, NATO Is Suddenly Vulnerable 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Moreover, many Germans, especially in the former East Germany, believe that the West is largely responsible for the current unrest. Russian mobilization in Ukraine raises concerns about a new Cold War-style era in Europe 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The jump in factory gate costs, considered a leading indicator for consumer prices, was the biggest since 1949, when West and East Germany were founded and the country’s post-war economic data series began. German producer prices soar as Bundesbank, BDI warn on economy 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z East Germany was another place where people demanded reform. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Changes in East Germany affected other European countries, including Czechoslovakia and Romania. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The confrontation in some ways evokes the Berlin crisis of 1961, when the Soviets demanded that Western forces leave Berlin, and East Germany eventually built the wall that divided East and West. In Ukraine Crisis, the Looming Threat of a New Cold War 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Within East Germany lay the city of Berlin, which also was divided into two sections, east and west, eventually separated by the wall that came to represent the Iron Curtain that had fallen across Europe. Gail Halvorsen, pilot who showered children with candy during Berlin airlift, dies at 101 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z That was before the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, so the promise made to then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev only referred to East Germany in the context of a reunified Germany. Is Russia going to invade Ukraine and what does Putin want? 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Germany's seven sliding golds already at these Olympics is a record for any nation, and its 12 medals — and counting — ties what East Germany and West Germany managed in 1976. Winter Olympics 2022: Germany leads in women's bobsled, US in 3rd 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z While huge crowds were demanding democracy in East Germany, neighboring Czechoslovakia remained quiet. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Germany’s seven sliding golds already at these Olympics is a record for any nation, and its 12 medals — and counting — ties what East Germany and West Germany managed in 1976. Germany leads in women’s Olympic bobsled, USA in 3rd 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z East Germany and West Germany combined for 12 medals at the 1976 Innsbruck Games. Historic sweep for Germany, taking 3 medals in Olympic 2-man 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z But Keller soon comes to loathe the police state demanding he build East Germany’s first atomic bomb. Review | Great thrillers abound this month. Here are five of the best. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Dikalo knows how to handle weapons as well, from his days as a soldier in the Soviet Army when he was stationed in East Germany. Bomb shelters, guerrilla war: Building Ukraine’s resistance 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z By October 1989, huge demonstrations had broken out in cities across East Germany. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Monday walks have particular resonance in eastern Germany, with peaceful Monday demonstrations having been used in protest of the former communist government of East Germany. In Germany’s east, far-right extremists find footholds in escalating anti-vaccine protests 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z While the former East Germany repudiated its Nazi past and would embrace the Nuremberg Trials, West Germany was much more hostile to the idea, seeing them as “victors’ justice.” How a Syrian War Criminal Was Brought to Justice — in Germany 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The Cold War added yet another layer of complexity: West Germany became firmly embedded in the Western alliance while East Germany lived under Soviet occupation. Where Is Germany in the Ukraine Standoff? Its Allies Wonder. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z "I visited, in 1962, East Germany with my father and met people who had climbed the wall and escaped, so it was possible. Many died, true, but it was possible." Insurrection by other means: The far right is using anti-vaxx sentiment to radicalize Republicans 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z With the fall of Communism in East Germany, many Germans began to speak of reunification—the merging of the two Germanys. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Dörner also played 100 games for East Germany and helped the country to gold at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. East Germany, Dynamo Dresden great ‘Dixie’ Dörner dies at 70 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z When Klaus Fuchs, the German physicist and Soviet spy who stole information about the Manhattan Project, died in East Germany in 1988, no high Soviet official attended his funeral. Opinion | Why threatening Putin with sanctions over Ukraine won’t be enough 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z As Homer Smith, Poitier played an ex-GI drifter who meets five refugee nuns from East Germany after his station wagon overheats in the Arizona desert, and he is talked into building a chapel for them. Sidney Poitier, who helped break down Hollywood’s on-screen color barriers and made history as the first African American to win an Academy Award for best actor, has died 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Kennedy's analogy is incoherent for obvious reasons — does he think East Germany was a Nazi state or not know that Frank died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp? — and was widely criticized for being offensive. Insurrection by other means: The far right is using anti-vaxx sentiment to radicalize Republicans 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Chemnitz, a city of about 247,000 residents, was known as Karl-Marx-Stadt when it and the rest of Saxony were part of the former communist East Germany. In eastern Germany, pastors push for shots despite protests 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Gorbachev has, in interviews, confirmed that spoken assurance came in discussions only of East Germany. Russia Lays Out Demands for a Sweeping New Security Deal With NATO 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z In 1990, after East Germany lurched out of the Soviet orbit, Putin drove home to a comparatively backward Russia with a trophy of socialist achievement strapped to the roof of his car: a washing machine. Opinion | Why threatening Putin with sanctions over Ukraine won’t be enough 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Italian journalist Riccardo Ehrman, who will always be remembered for asking the decisive question that led to communist East Germany opening up the Berlin Wall, has died aged 92. Riccardo Ehrman: Journalist who prompted Berlin Wall to fall dies 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Ms. Merkel said, referring to the German Democratic Republic, the official name of Communist East Germany. Angela Merkel’s Parting Message to Germany: Trust One Another 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Those suspected of involvement include a former officer with East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, and an insurance company’s office in Berlin. German police smash cocaine ring accused of smuggling tons 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The agreement was never put in writing and Mr. Baker said later that Russian officials misinterpreted his comment, which applied only to the territory of the former East Germany. Russia Lays Out Demands for a Sweeping New Security Deal With NATO 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Pockets of resistance are strongest in the former East Germany, but not confined to it. COVID-19 surge in Europe as it heads into winter could bode ill for U.S. 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Details were due to be given at a 9 November news conference featuring the results of a meeting of communist East Germany's ruling party. Riccardo Ehrman: Journalist who prompted Berlin Wall to fall dies 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z East Germany and West Germany were reunited as of Oct. Remains found thought to be German hiker missing since 1983 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z While her fellow dissidents were resolutely focused on making East Germany better, Merkel knew immediately that her country was not on the verge of a new day; it was toast. Perspective | Merkel rose to command Europe — thanks to her East German humility 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Merkel joined the campaign and her party emphasized that a potential Social Democrat coalition could include the far-left Die Linke, hated by much of German society for its ties to East Germany’s former ruling party. Germany’s Social Democrats narrowly defeat Angela Merkel’s party, according to preliminary results 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z After the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, desperate Germans trapped inside East Germany tried many creative ways to escape to the West, often with deadly consequences — the guards shot to kill. Review | A group of students, a secret tunnel and a daring escape from East Germany 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Raised in East Germany, the Lutheran pastor’s daughter with a doctorate in quantum chemistry entered politics at the relatively advanced age of 35, shortly after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. The unassuming power of Germany's Angela Merkel. What does she leave behind? 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Undeterred, the leftists are pitching themselves as ready for government responsibility three decades after East Germany vanished from the map. German conservatives raise spectre of far-left rule ahead of election 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z In November 1989, East Germany seemed to be experiencing rebirth and collapse simultaneously in the days after the Berlin Wall opened. Perspective | Merkel rose to command Europe — thanks to her East German humility 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z It is something Merkel and Laschet have warned against — and it’s a fear that resonates here in the former Communist East Germany. Germany’s Merkel makes final campaign push for stumbling political heir 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z But his experience of being a willing spy, eager to please and betray, offers an idiosyncratic case study of the Stasi operations in East Germany. Review | A group of students, a secret tunnel and a daring escape from East Germany 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z But there is still some stigma attached to a group built from the remnants of the successor to the ruling party of Communist East Germany. What you need to know about Germany’s election 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z A vicar’s daughter, Ms. Merkel grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Communist East Germany, a background that has profoundly impacted her politics. Merkel’s Children: Living Legacies Called Angela, Angie and Sometimes Merkel 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z "Jesus, when did West Texas become East Germany?" Bill Maher blasts 'Snitch Nation': Everyone's 'an amateur secret policeman' and 'tattling is a virtue' 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z The former communist states of East Germany largely caught up during her tenure. Merkel Leaves the German Economy With Trouble Under the Hood 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z It was the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 that opened up the world of politics to Merkel, the daughter of a pastor in communist East Germany. After 16 years, Germany’s Merkel is stepping down. Here’s how her legacy was built. However, as her time in power draws to a close, Merkel - who grew up in the former Communist East Germany and has a doctorate in quantum chemistry - has reconsidered her position. A reluctant feminist: Germany's Merkel still inspires many women 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z The migration crisis unleashed an angry backlash, especially in Ms. Merkel’s native former East Germany. Merkel’s Children: Living Legacies Called Angela, Angie and Sometimes Merkel 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z Having grown up in East Germany near the Polish border, Merkel, 67, was seen by some observers as a chancellor who could relate to the post-communist states of central Europe. 'Ms Nord Stream 2?': Germany's Merkel makes difficult last visit to Poland 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Both parties would be uncomfortable with a “red-red-green” coalition with the hard-left Linke party, heirs to the Communist Party that ruled East Germany, even if they are not far apart in many policy areas. Jamaica, traffic lights or kiwis: Germany's coalition conundrum 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Moynihan noted that in 1987 the CIA reported that East Germany’s per capita GDP was higher than West Germany’s, an assessment that “any taxi driver in Berlin” could have refuted. Opinion | The impatient Biden administration needs a dose of epistemic humility 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Her party is effectively the successor to East Germany’s Socialist Unity Party. Victims slam Tesla subsidy from East German communist fund 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Ramelow is Germany’s only state governor from the Left Party, which is in part a descendant of East Germany’s ruling communists and mainstream center-right parties refuse to work with. German far-right fails in bid to oust state governor 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Both honors recognized the chancellor’s steadfast devotion to democracy, shaped by having spent so much of the first 35 years of her life in the autocratic former East Germany. Legacy and Policy Mix as Merkel Takes a Bow in Washington 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z The 66-year-old said that growing up in East Germany she dreamed of being able to travel to America on her retirement, when the communist bloc tended to relax some of the restrictions on its citizens. Merkel brings message of stability to US on farewell visit 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z “The rest of the world isn’t sleeping in this field,” said the 66-year-old, who was a quantum chemist in East Germany before entering politics. Behind in quantum compute race, Germany gets boost from IBM 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z In 1990, in its first meeting, East Germany’s first democratically elected parliament acknowledged responsibility for the Nazi Holocaust, and asked the forgiveness of Jews and others who had suffered. Today in History 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z In the former East Germany, supposedly egalitarian communist rule afforded luxurious perks to a leadership elite, who drove Western automobiles and drank Western liquor. Europe fears creating COVID-19 vaccine passports could lead to discrimination, division 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z When Minter asked whether the United States should react to what was happening in East Germany, Perroots replied there was “insufficient evidence to justify increasing our real alert posture.” Newly released documents shed light on 1983 nuclear war scare with Soviets 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z He grew up in a divided Germany, he says, with some family members living in communist East Germany, where the government dictated what to eat when food was limited. Can you trust a pro-beef professor? It’s complicated. 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z One man said he had grown up in East Germany and compared us to the Communist secret police: Opinion | This is what it looks like when the mob turns on you 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z When the war ended, he was posted to Germany where he spied on the Soviet forces occupying what was then East Germany. Obituary: George Blake 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Kramp-Karrenbauer said the new legislation will also cover people who experienced discrimination in communist East Germany’s National People’s Army, which she called “an important signal” in a year when Germany marked 30 years of reunification. Germany to compensate gay servicepeople for discrimination 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z According to the documents, the heightened Soviet alert was raised in the fighter-bomber divisions of Soviet forces stationed in East Germany. Newly released documents shed light on 1983 nuclear war scare with Soviets 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z I’m sure the developers didn’t intend for me to linger disobediently on that roof in East Germany, but here they explicitly asked me to reject the cues they spent two decades teaching me. Black Ops Cold War is a great game trapped inside Call of Duty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z A top U.S. physicist defects to East Germany seeking information about Soviet nuclear missiles. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z After a period of hiding in various houses, he was smuggled to East Germany in a camper van and then to the Soviet Union. Obituary: George Blake 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z In 1989, East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia, prompting tens of thousands of refugees to flee to the West. Today in History 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z He was known as the “master of fear”, after turning East Germany into what the writer Anna Funder, in her book Stasiland, called “the most perfected surveillance state of all time”. The contested legacy of the anti-fascist International Brigades 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Officially, there were no Nazis in old East Germany. Germany’s Far Right Reunified, Too, Making It Much Stronger 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z Because East Germany relied on heavy industry and industrial farming for economic survival, it was notoriously polluted. 30 Years After Reunification, Old German-German Border Is a Green Oasis 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z When he returned to East Germany the following summer, the communist country’s fate was sealed: within a few months, on Oct. From Communist cadre to Coca-Cola rep: An East German story 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Ade meticulously outfitted the trailer’s interior with original furniture and linens from East Germany. Blast from the past: Campers revel in East German nostalgia 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z International Brigades veterans went on to serve as iron curtain prime ministers – or equivalent – in East Germany, Hungary and Albania. The contested legacy of the anti-fascist International Brigades 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z The mighty West German mark was introduced to East Germany on July 1, 1990 - a little over three months before reunification on Oct. AP PHOTOS: Remnants of East Germany, 30 years after its end 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The mighty West German mark was introduced to East Germany on July 1, 1990 — a little over three months before reunification on Oct. AP PHOTOS: Remnants of East Germany, 30 years after its end 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Professional snipers would have been readily available from the Stasi ranks, East Germany’s recently dissolved secret police. A Perfect Crime: Netflix to examine Germany's answer to JFK assassination 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z The resident of the Saxony state town of Plauen says the twice yearly camping weekends are a way to learn more about the former East Germany. Blast from the past: Campers revel in East German nostalgia 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z In East Germany, former International Brigades volunteers founded and ran the notorious Stasi. The contested legacy of the anti-fascist International Brigades 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Casualties of the transition included East Germany’s clunky cars, the Trabant and the more upmarket - though still spartan by Western standards - Wartburg. AP PHOTOS: Remnants of East Germany, 30 years after its end 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Casualties of the transition included East Germany’s clunky cars, the Trabant and the more upmarket — though still spartan by Western standards — Wartburg. AP PHOTOS: Remnants of East Germany, 30 years after its end 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z The complex relationship between Carlos and the Communist regime in East Germany was revealed in the mid-1990s when researchers and investigators gained access to the archives of the Stasi. How cold war spymasters found arrogance of Carlos the Jackal too hot to handle 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z In 1974, the United States established diplomatic relations with East Germany. Today in History 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Such figures also provided a narrative of heroic German opposition to Hitler, which East Germany also tried to claim for itself. The contested legacy of the anti-fascist International Brigades 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Born in the former East Germany in 1985, Christian wasn't always so altruistic. The search engine boss who wants to help us all plant trees 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z They finished with 195 total medals, more than any country at any Olympic Games before or since, ahead of East Germany with 126. Cold War rivalries split the Olympics in Moscow in 1980 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z In spite of this, Scowcroft seemed totally to underestimate the significance of the parallel demonstrations in East Germany and the mass flight of its citizens into Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Brent Scowcroft obituary 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z At this stage, the drug of choice used by many Russian athletes was oral turinabol, a drug created as part of another state-sponsored doping programme in East Germany during the 1970s. The 'real' threat to Russia’s former doping mastermind 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z After the war, the German Democratic Republic in East Germany took over the name of the Deutsche Reichsbahn for its railway system. Holocaust survivor launches legal claim against German railway 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Relatively few foreigners were allowed to live and work in communist East Germany. Germany: over a quarter of population has immigrant roots 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z East Germany’s medal haul was vast for a country of barely 16 million people. Cold War rivalries split the Olympics in Moscow in 1980 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z Wilkins went on to beat his international rival Wolfgang Schmidt of East Germany with a throw of 221 feet for the gold medal. This day in sports: George Brett denied homer due to pine tar 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union boycotts and is joined by 13 Communist allies, including Cuba and East Germany. AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The idea of travel restrictions is likely to be sensitive given the country’s 40-year partition during which residents of communist East Germany were forbidden from freely going to the West. Germany considers local coronavirus quarantines to avoid second wave 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Diaby, 58, was born in Senegal and moved here in 1985, after getting a scholarship to study in what was then East Germany. Germany’s only black member of parliament says the country needs to face its racism 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Both the Nazis and East Germany’s communist regime amassed vast amounts of information to persecute dissidents and undesirables. Coronavirus tracing app a test for privacy-minded Germany 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z In the early 1970s, the Free Angela Davis campaign told the New York Times that it had received 100,000 letters of support from East Germany alone – too many even to open. What black America means to Europe 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z This was because East Germany was exposed to Western technology and investment, along with incentives for efficiency. After COVID-19, green investment must deliver jobs to get political traction 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z At the time, a popular program on West German television, also viewed in East Germany, was "Denver-Clan," the German name for the popular U.S. television series "Dynasty." Lessons from Operation "Denver," the KGB’s massive AIDS disinformation campaign 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z East Germany, which was under Communist rule from the end of World War II until 1989, was officially atheist, but church authorities managed to reach an accommodation with the authorities. No hymns, no Communion: Germany's reopened churches offer a road map, but a new outbreak shows the risks 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Other members were killed in gunfights with the police, while some fled to East Germany, and the violent attacks became less frequent. ‘Fritz’ Kroesen Jr., Army general who survived assassination attempt, dies at 97 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z In the areas of the old communist East Germany, 8 May was taught as "Day of Liberation" from the Nazi regime by the victorious Red Army. Berlin marks end of WW2 with unprecedented holiday 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z For example, emissions fell by 15% in the decade following the reunification of West and East Germany. After COVID-19, green investment must deliver jobs to get political traction 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z To undermine the psychological stability of East Germany, for example, the CIA thought it would be useful to create a glossy women’s magazine, a jazz magazine and an astrology magazine. Review | The Russians manipulated our elections. We helped. 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Putin was a young Soviet KGB officer in Dresden, East Germany, and as the Berlin Wall teetered, he sought guidance from Moscow. Review | The Cold War roots of Putin’s digital-age intelligence strategy 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The palace, originally built in the 15th century and finalized in the 18th century, was largely destroyed during World War II and then demolished in communist East Germany. Fire reported at replica Prussian palace in Berlin 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Hannelore Steer, who grew up in East Germany, sees the holiday as a good idea as she was used to seeing it celebrated many years ago. Berlin marks end of WW2 with unprecedented holiday 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Geisel was a member of the East Germany communist party until 1989. US debunks Berlin leaders’ allegations that it seized 200,000 face masks amid coronavirus pandemic 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z German Chancellor Angela Merkel was born the decade after the Nazis’ defeat and grew up in East Germany feeling the war’s direct consequences. Virus causes surge in WW II references, but is it merited? 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Over the 40-year existence of communist East Germany, the Ministry of State Security built one of the most tightly controlled surveillance regimes in history. Enemies everywhere: photos show absurdity of life under the Stasi 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z The CDU’s policy is not to cooperate with either party, in the latter case because it is descended from East Germany’s ruling communists, but that put it in a very difficult position in Thuringia. Germany: Left-wing governor returns after month of turmoil 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The politics of the former East Germany is rarely replicated in the west. The Guardian view on Germany’s far right: a clear and present danger | Editorial 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The problem has been particularly acute in - but not confined to - the east of the country, in the former East Germany. Police probe whether racist German killer had help 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Putin was stationed in East Germany for much of the late 1980s and began working for his alma mater in 1990. Who is Vladimir Putin, the Russian president and ex-KGB officer? 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z The Christian Democrats shun the Left Party as a descendant of East Germany’s ruling communists. Merkel’s party grapples with German far-right fiasco fallout 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The Christian Democrats shun the Left Party as a descendant of East Germany’s ruling communists. Merkel’s party grapples with German far-right fiasco fallout 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Think of how much richer West Germany became compared with East Germany over the four decades the country was divided. How Private Equity Buried Payless 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z It would also mark a symbolic return of soccer in the former East Germany — though Leipzig wasn’t founded until 20 years after the Berlin Wall fell. Unloved Leipzig aims to break Bayern’s hold on Bundesliga 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z It would also mark a symbolic return of soccer in the former East Germany - though Leipzig wasn’t founded until 20 years after the Berlin Wall fell. Unloved Leipzig aims to break Bayern’s hold on Bundesliga 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Sobchak hired Medvedev to be his adviser – and also took on another of his former students, Putin, then an undercover KGB operative newly returned from the defunct East Germany. Dmitry Medvedev: the rise and fall of the Robin to Putin’s Batman 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z In 1972 East Germany passed the most progressive law in Europe, which recognised abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy as a legal right. Germany’s abortion law: made by the Nazis, upheld by today’s right | Mithu Sanyal 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z One of the few international stars to emerge from former communist East Germany, he sang in opera houses from Berlin to Vienna and New York. Leading German tenor Peter Schreier dies at 84 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z As a boy, Frank was involved in a project to clean Marx’s tomb during a visit to London from his home in what was then East Germany. CCTV installed at Karl Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z He became the first German in space at the height of the Cold War during the 1970s and was promoted as a hero by communist authorities in East Germany. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z It was a source of terror in East Germany and of deep shame after its fall. Exposed as Stasi Spy, a Newspaper Owner Tries to Reclaim His Story 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z So did Germany, home to large Soviet-style farms in what was once East Germany. Who Keeps Europe’s Farm Billions Flowing? Often, Those Who Benefit 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z He remained in East Germany throughout the communist era, saying he did not want to leave Dresden. Leading German tenor Peter Schreier dies at 84 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z “To a North Korean’s eyes, East Germany was heaven.” The fall of the Berlin Wall once gave South Korea hope. Not anymore 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Historical forces and the town’s inability to adapt to capitalism resulted in high unemployment, rising support for the far right and an aging population that continues to mire East Germany’s former hub of modernity. North Korea just opened its socialist ‘utopia’ town. Similar endeavors elsewhere are crumbling away. 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z “People are more willing to discuss the ambiguities surrounding those individuals who were acting as informers,” said Ned Richardson-Little, a historian at the University of Erfurt, in the former East Germany. Exposed as Stasi Spy, a Newspaper Owner Tries to Reclaim His Story 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Like many other citizens of East Germany who found themselves facing the challenges of a capitalist system with little preparation, Ms. Ziervogel, who was 53 when the wall fell, was forced to adapt. Beloved Berlin Currywurst Stand Delivers a Bite of History 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z This was the office from when he was a K.G.B. guy in East Germany? Malcolm Nance on the Danger of Conspiracy Theories 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z West Germany paid about 2 trillion euros — about $2.2 trillion today — to fund infrastructure improvements, social welfare benefits and other measures to integrate East Germany. The fall of the Berlin Wall once gave South Korea hope. Not anymore 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The state of Brandenburg, which includes Grünheide and was once part of East Germany, was a long shot to win the Tesla plant. Tesla’s Winding Road to Berlin 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z They suggested that East Germany’s last dictator, Egon Krenz — who was part of efforts to repress the peaceful revolution of the 1980s — should be thanked for not violently cracking down on protesters. Exposed as Stasi Spy, a Newspaper Owner Tries to Reclaim His Story 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z He was in post during the reunification of West and East Germany, continuing to serve as president of a united Germany until 1994. Son of former German president stabbed to death 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Tributes to the events of 1989 – when Czechoslovakia shook off four decades of communist rule after similar allied regimes had fallen in Poland, Hungary and East Germany – have been ubiquitous in recent days. Velvet Revolution dissidents warn against new threats to Czech freedom 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z If East Germany were still a politically separate entity, it would also be on the list, which is headed by Bulgaria. Opinion | Eastern Europe is headed toward a demographic crisis 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z “Carpetbaggers” crowded in from Hamburg and Frankfurt to loot the closing factories and public utilities of East Germany, decayed and unsustainable as they were. In place of Berlin’s Wall now stands a barrier of sullen resentment | Neal Ascherson 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Following a slow start, East Germany outpaced West in “working-off the past”. Learning from the Germans: how we might atone for America's evils 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z But Loewe’s fond memories of community in East Germany do not erase the terror he experienced there. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German-born Seattleites reflect on life in a divided world 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z East Germany’s peaceful 1989 revolution showed that societies that don’t reform, die. The Fall of the Berlin Wall in Photos: An Accident of History That Changed The World 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z “German unity was a gift from Europe to Germany,” he wrote, also thanking peaceful protesters in East Germany, democracy activists in Eastern-bloc countries and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Pompeo tours Germany sites where he served with NATO forces, as U.S. casts doubts over the alliance 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z There, standing at 2.5 tons each, are eight 12-foot-high segments of the Berlin Wall, whitewashed and blank on what was once the side that faced East Germany, colorful and graffiti-scrawled on side that faced West. Four unexpected places where the Berlin Wall still stands 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Fleischer recalls abandoning the party he was at when TV news reports started coming through that the first openings had appeared in East Germany’s borders. 'Witnesses of history': the man who kept slabs of the Berlin Wall 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Queitsch and other activists hoped for a better path for East Germany. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German-born Seattleites reflect on life in a divided world 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z He held dissident meetings in his home and was harassed by the Stasi, East Germany’s fearsome secret police, for years. The Fall of the Berlin Wall in Photos: An Accident of History That Changed The World 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z As a United States soldier, Mr. Pompeo was posted in 1986 to a base in Bindlach, Bavaria, where he was focused on securing the borders with what was then East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Pompeo and Netanyahu Escalate Pressure on Europeans to Scrap Iran Nuclear Pact 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z That drops to 20 percent among those younger than 40, who experienced East Germany only as children or not at all. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, children of a united Germany remain divided 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z May 7: Local elections are held in East Germany. Timeline of events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z East Germany announced an easing of travel restrictions, triggering a wave of Germans demanding passage to the West. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German-born Seattleites reflect on life in a divided world 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The churches played an important role in the resistance movement against East Germany’s Communist authorities. The Fall of the Berlin Wall in Photos: An Accident of History That Changed The World 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z About an hour into the rambling news conference, Schabowski mentioned that East Germany was lifting restrictions on travel across its border into West Germany. AP reporter recounts covering fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z But it was also the beginning of a painful readjustment for many in East Germany. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, children of a united Germany remain divided 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Nov. 9: East Germany opens its heavily fortified border after 28 years. Timeline of events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z On Nov. 9, 1989, East Germany eased travel restrictions to the West, and thousands of Berliners stormed the wall demanding to be let 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 Communist East Germany sealed off the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city. AP PHOTOS: The Berlin Wall, and the city 30 years later 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z It was so offhanded that it took Reimold a little time to recognize the implications of the statement — that East Germany was opening the Berlin Wall and the heavily fortified border with West Germany. AP reporter recounts covering fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z In May 1983, he tried to leave East Germany as a stowaway on a train from Prague to Nuremberg. 'I've been shafted twice': Stasi victims and their quest for compensation 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The day after the wall opened, the orchestra had the idea to play a concert only for people from East Germany, who we had never been able to play for. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z “Where I lived in Berlin, the wall was too tall,” said Marcus Loewe, a Seattle-based music producer who fled East Germany with his mother when he was 9 years old. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German-born Seattleites reflect on life in a divided world 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z West Berlin became an island surrounded by communist East Germany. How 1989 reshaped the modern world 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z 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 “The rock music, the lyrics, the atmosphere at concerts — all those things were adding up to move people in East Germany, shaking people up and were part of the motivation to rise up and act.” How rock ’n' roll shook East Berlin's core — and the wall 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z They had hoped to establish an independent, idealist East Germany. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z While the situation in East Germany then and the situation in the United States today are different in many ways, those who lived in East Germany see some parallels. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German-born Seattleites reflect on life in a divided world 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z East Germany ended up closing its border with Czechoslovakia in October to stem the tide. How 1989 reshaped the modern world 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Its title, in the utopian jargon still favoured in socialist East Germany when the mural was conceived in 1976: Man’s Relation to Nature and Technology. Mural superiority: the fight over Germany's cold war art heritage 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Nikolai Andreyev, who was a Soviet army colonel in East Germany, said he was relieved to see that the Soviet leadership didn’t try to reclaim control by forceful means. Berlin Wall’s fall stokes memories of lost hopes in Russia 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z I said yes, on two conditions: it must be free and only for citizens of East Germany. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z “I didn’t want to do away with the GDR but rather to reform it,” said Rudolph, who was spied on by a colleague and detained for protesting as East Germany limped into its final months. Thirty years after it fell, the Berlin Wall still divides Germans 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z On 9 October, within days of East Germany celebrating its 40th anniversary, 70,000 people took to the streets. How 1989 reshaped the modern world 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Many of the murals that adorned civic buildings in East Germany have been actively discarded or allowed to fall into disrepair. Mural superiority: the fight over Germany's cold war art heritage 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z In 1998 he found himself playing under contract in East Germany. Hollywood said ‘no’ to Deon Taylor, so he made his own path 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z It was obvious East Germany had already started to fall apart. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, a historian and author of ‘The Takeover - how East Germany became part of the Federal Republic’, said the economic shock of reunification disrupted the whole social fabric of eastern Germany. Thirty years after it fell, the Berlin Wall still divides Germans 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z There were calls for free elections from West Germany, and talk of reform from East Germany's new communist leader Egon Krenz. How 1989 reshaped the modern world 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Levy’s third nomination for the Man Booker Prize starts out with Saul about to head to East Germany when the Berlin Wall separated the city. ‘The Man Who Saw Everything’ is haunting and effective 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z ‘East Germany is different, unlike Poland, where the motive for change was empty shelves,’ says Mr Jiri Dienstbier, the head of the editorial board of the main underground newspaper. How communist Europe was swept by a tide of change - archive, 1989 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z That Stasi informer had thought I had some sort of political agenda to corrupt the youth of East Germany with western music. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The protest movement was unstoppable: a week later more than 100,000 thronged central Leipzig and protests soon spread across East Germany. The people power activists who toppled East Germany 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z And then on 31 October, the numbers demanding democracy in East Germany swelled to half a million. How 1989 reshaped the modern world 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z A town of around 241,000 inhabitants, Halle usually defies the stereotype of the former lands of socialist East Germany as a fertile ground for the rise of the new far right. 'I worried it would be a matter of time': Halle grieves after shootings 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z No one in their right mind can dispute the obvious dangers that accompany the traumas in East Germany, Hungary, Poland and parts of the Soviet Union. How communist Europe was swept by a tide of change - archive, 1989 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z I was curious and soon visited and exhibited in East Germany. ‘We finished every bottle!’ Berlin's cultural legends on the night the Wall came down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z For communist Russia, East Germany was its key outpost in Europe. Fall of Berlin Wall was 'worst night of my life' 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. How 1989 reshaped the modern world 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “East Germany? Are you crazy?” her Syrian friends told her over the phone after her family was bused from Berlin to an asylum center in the east and eventually to Golzow, Ms. Taha recalled. Syrian Children Saved a German Village. And a Village Saved Itself. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z He later compared Hong Kong with East Germany during the pro-democracy protests that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. In leaderless Hong Kong movement, Joshua Wong just 1 voice 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z He later compared Hong Kong with East Germany during the pro-democracy protests that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. In leaderless Hong Kong movement, Joshua Wong just 1 voice 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Höcke is his party’s lead candidate in the state of Thuringia, in the former East Germany, where polls predict the AfD gaining 20-24% of the vote in state elections on 27 October. AfD politician threatens journalist after Hitler comparison 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Performances are in an inviting, decaying theater that has a long history of innovation and was a home of Brechtian theatrical conviction in the East Germany of the 1950s. Commentary: Where Barrie Kosky, Europe's hot opera director, wants to make his American splash 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z A U.S. scientist spies for a CIA agent in East Germany; a Soviet agent tries to get him to defect. Movies on TV this week Sept. 15, 2019: 'Alien,' 'Aliens' and more 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Spencer: And then after the, the wall fell, and there wasn’t an East Germany. Transcript: Rob Spencer 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The results highlight a deep division between what was once East Germany and the rest of the country, which the AfD both tapped into and exacerbated during the campaign. German Far Right Makes Election Gains, but Falls Short of Victory 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z The exception was East Germany, where change was unthinkable. From a picnic to the Berlin Wall: my 1989 summer of revolution 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Mrs Merkel grew up in East Germany - an experience that turned her into a committed champion of liberal democracy. 'Cut the Iron Curtain': Germany's 1989 freedom picnic 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z He served nine years, then moved to East Germany, where he worked at the Central Institute for Nuclear Research in Dresden. The scientist-spy who spilt secrets of the bomb 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z Tokarev worked with Putin in the KGB in East Germany in the 1980s. Putin allies' oil feud spills into public view 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Upon her release, later that year, Bachelet went into exile, first in Australia and then in East Germany. Michelle Bachelet, Nicolás Maduro, and the U.N. Report on Human Rights in Venezuela 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Hungary had become East Germany’s unlocked back door. From a picnic to the Berlin Wall: my 1989 summer of revolution 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z In 1961, I was 21 and studying civil engineering in East Germany. Experience: I tunnelled under the Berlin Wall 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z He said that the changes introduced by the law mirror reforms made, after the reunification of Germany, to the research institutes previously run by East Germany’s science academy. Hungarian government takes control of research institutes despite outcry 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z In HBO’s recent miniseries fictionalizing the disaster, a physicist briefing Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says the radiation will spread as far as East Germany. Perspective | Five myths about Chernobyl 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z In 1985, in part a result of his good command of German, he was sent to Dresden, in communist East Germany. The west thinks Putin is Russia's spymaster. But are the spies controlling him? | Mark Galeotti 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Warnig served as an officer in East Germany’s Stasi secret police at the same time as Putin was a KGB officer in Dresden in the late 1980s. Exclusive: American banker and Putin ally dealt in access and... 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, the party emerged on top in Brandenburg and Saxony, both states in the former Communist East Germany, which are currently governed by one of the traditional, centrist parties. Germany’s Political Establishment Looks Fragile After E.U. Vote 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The German-language homepage of RT, formerly Russia Today, recently featured a banner debunking “myths” that the former West Germany was superior to communist East Germany. Europe was worried Russia would mess with its elections. Now it has other fears. 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z “East Germany isn’t different because it was conquered by the Russians,” he said. Don't play that song for me: anthem plan highlights German divisions 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Its members came of age in East Germany, before the Berlin Wall fell, and the “Deutschland” video attempts to deliver an accelerated and gory summation of German history. Rammstein’s Heavy and Cathartic Camp 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Her mother was from East Germany, but left before the border was sealed. 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 The communists of East Germany later appropriated its legacy. The Nazis tried to destroy it. Now Germany’s Bauhaus is getting its due. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Merkel, who grew up in the former East Germany, appeared deeply moved. May, Merkel, Macron, and a Three-Day Brexit Countdown 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z When East Germany fell under Communist rule, during which equal opportunity for men and women was emphasized, women started to enter careers that were traditionally the reserve of men. Sexism is still a problem for German research 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z He now runs a successful insurance business in Marburg, and regularly drives along his old escape route to see clients in the former East Germany. The schoolgirls who defied the Stasi: 'Someone said, 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z They can walk into an exhibit that recreates life under the secret police in East Germany before the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Real spies, not James Bond, take spotlight at new spy museum 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z 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 In North Korea and East Germany, such fakes were produced on an industrial scale, according to files recently released. 'Fake news' sent out by government department 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The more-modern societies such as East Germany’s oppressed their people with scientific efficiency, but many other authoritarian governments had neither the skill nor the resources to control their populations as effectively. Opinion: The strongmen are back. And we have no idea how to confront them. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z In 1989, he was a KGB agent serving in the city of Dresden in East Germany when almost overnight, the autocratic government of that Russian satellite nation fell. Donald Trump admired the Russian badass's macho posturing, Putin was happy to have the attention 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Some of the vacated rooms inside the three-story officers’ complex recall the glory years of Soviet power in East Germany. ‘Forbidden city’ tells Germany’s complex military history 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Central Europe’s problem today is not much different from the one East Germany faced in 1961 when its government built the wall. Why Viktor Orbán and his allies won’t win the EU elections | Ivan Krastev 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Some of the vacated rooms inside the three-story officers' complex recall the glory years of Soviet power in East Germany. 'Forbidden city' tells Germany's complex military history 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z That is because the Soviet satellite state of East Germany included Women's Day in its long list of sanctioned celebrations, which meant big parades in East Berlin - the Communist country's capital. Berliners get day off for Women's Day 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Of course, states like East Germany and Czechoslovakia were marked by political repression. Neoliberalism is killing our love lives | Bhaskar Sunkara 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z But he also continued traveling the farther shores of American politics, proclaiming his innocence, booking extensive speaking tours and visiting communist-friendly nations, including Cuba, Vietnam and East Germany. Morton Sobell, convicted in Rosenberg atomic bomb spy trial, dies at 101 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z |
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