The news the AfD would be running its first district council ... The AfD is polling even better in the former communist East German states of Thuringia, Brandenburg and Saxony, which will see ...

Over dinner and a few ... For a broader view of East German history, visit the Zeitgeschichtliches Forum (hdg.de). Full of fascinating artefacts, it’s a vivid survey of post-war Germany, from ...

Even after almost 35 years when the so-called German Reunification ... is so widespread that it received its own terminology: Ostaligie – merging Ost (East) with nostalgia.

Despite the federal government spending hundreds of billions of euros boosting the region's economy and developing its ... German reunification following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the economy ...

However, the East German régime is so completely interlocked ... that it is encountering greater and greater difficulties. Over and over again, it has to evoke the solidarity of its allies, striving ...

Eastern Germany has actually fared relatively well economically over the past decade ... concept of remigration. In the east German campaign it was one of its main selling points.

Two German aristocrats – of ... politburo was a kind of a watchdog over the government. But the big question is: Was there democracy in East Germany? The answer might be, in theory yes ...