Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sex shop in eastern Germany. Many are struggling amid the growth of business online. Bodo Schackow/dpa The story of Andreas ...

From 1976 through 1990, the building in East Berlin served as a symbol of the communist state's power. The "People's Palace" ...

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.

Let's paint the scene for you. It's 1991, and you're a former East German peasant factory laborer from one of the cities unfortunate enough to fall on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain. The Berlin ...

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 ...

No major combat incidents occurred in the GDR, but the S-200 system’s presence deterred potential aggressors, aligning with Warsaw Pact exercises and Soviet oversight. East Germany was at the ...

Even after almost 35 years when the so-called German Reunification which was, in reality, a bit more like an Anschluss wherein West-Germany simply took over East-Germany occurred, a divided Germany ...

The Bunker Museum Frauenwald, part of the Waldhotel Rennsteighöhe in the town of the same name in Thuringia, offers visitors a truly unique experience. Not only can you visit the old facility, which ...