EISENACH, Germany (AP) — Thirty years after Germany was reunited, many once-decrepit city centers in the formerly communist east have been painstakingly restored and new factories have sprung up.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall, photographer Simon Menner has exhibited pictures he found deep in the archives of East Germany's secret police. They provide a ...

Photography from the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, has received limited exposure in the art world – not least due to the strict limitations imposed by the former authoritarian ...

Spy Camp: Photos From East Germany’s Secret Intelligence Files A new book documents the absurd and terrifying history of the Stasi.

The Communist regime was prepared for everything “except candles and prayers.” East Germany’s peaceful 1989 revolution showed that societies that don’t reform, die.

Photographer Siegfried Wittenburg angered officials in East Germany during the 1980s with his pictures showing the drabness of everyday life under communism. He has told SPIEGEL ONLINE what ...

East Germany’s Walter Ulbricht has long tried to make his miserable “German Democratic Republic” seem important. With Nikita Khrushchev’s approaching visit to Bonn, he is also plainly ...

Photography from the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, has received limited exposure in the art world – not least due to the strict limitations imposed by the former authoritarian ...

Thirty years after Germany was reunited, many once-decrepit city centers in the formerly communist east have been painstakingly restored and new factories have sprung up.

Photography from the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, has received limited exposure in the art world – not least due to the strict limitations imposed by the former authoritarian ...

Thirty years after Germany was reunited, many once-decrepit city centers in the formerly communist east have been painstakingly restored and new factories have sprung up. The mighty West German ...