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 ...

In communist East Germany, authorities would use horrific psychological warfare to keep citizens in line. But after the ...

Given East Germany’s population of 17 million, this amounts to one informer per 6.5 citizens—or, as author John O. Koehler more viscerally puts it, “It would not have been unreasonable to ...

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.

East Germany's Walter Ulbricht has long tried to make his miserable ... clearly more interested in their weary feet than in the oversized pictures of Communist leaders that they dutifully ...

A former East German watch tower stands on a hill high above the former border area between East and West Germany in Unterweid, eastern Germany, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. Thirty years after Germany ...

Photography from the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, ... Similarly, Christiane Eisler’s photos of Leipzig’s punk community offer a glimpse into a private world.