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Three photos of Morrison and the Doors, taken by Montfort in Germany in 1968, are exclusively available for viewing below.
After the Vietnam War ended, thousands travelled to Germany. A recent anniversary has stirred a sense of reflection.
Wildfires continued to rage on the western coast of Turkey as more than 50,000 people have been evacuated from impacted areas ...
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was once a prominent player in the Eastern Bloc, with a relatively advanced industrial base during the Cold War. However ...
In communist East Germany, authorities would use horrific psychological warfare to keep citizens in line. But after the ...
Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom, even by killing them.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
When the Berlin Wall fell, East German “stuff” went to landfills. The nostalgia of identity is creating a new market for communist-era goods.
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 ...
In other parts of east Germany, AfD posters abounded with pictures of airliners in flight and the slogan: “Summer, sunshine, remigration!” while activists at AfD rallies handed out balloons in ...
A message to be gleaned from our family's little cultural exchange with another family in eastern Germany is that the world's people want peace for themselves and our families.
After the Berlin Wall fell, agents of East Germany’s secret police frantically tore apart their records. Archivists have spent the past thirty years trying to restore them.