On Nov. 9, 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West for the first ...

The front page of The Tennessean on Nov. 10, 1989 declared: "East Germans dance on Wall," and displayed a photo of three men, ...

German cinema, especially as it relates to the way in which Germans in the former communist East Germany looked upon the west, is the focus of a planned film series culminating in a lecture by Michael ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

Many East Germans are more sympathetic toward Moscow than their western compatriots, reflecting decades of Soviet ties and disillusionment since reunification.

Germany's far-right party is dominating polls in the country's eastern region less than two weeks before the federal elections on Feb. 23 — and economic concerns have played a part in its popularity.

The far-right AfD party continues to be successful in Germany's former East. BERLIN -- In the evening hours of Nov. 9, 1989 the world watched as East Berliners climbed over the wall for the first time ...

THE historic Berlin-to-Baghdad ambitions of the Germans got nowhere politically under the whip of Kaiser or Fuhrer, but before the peaceful push of West Germany’s prosperous economy, they are ...