The Cold War border that once split Germany was a tightly guarded “death strip.” Against all odds, it turned into a thriving refuge — and may now hold lessons for European nations urgently seeking new ...

FILE PHOTO: Former prime minister of East Germany Modrow poses on the red carpet during the fourth Semperopernball in Dresden BERLIN (Reuters) -Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of ...

BERLIN – Germany's first state governor from a party with communist roots has taken office, following lengthy coalition negotiations tinged by concerns over his party's past. The eastern state of ...

BERLINBERLIN — Germany’s parliament on Friday commemorated the 70th anniversary of a popular uprising in the Communist east that was brutally crushed by its Soviet-backed dictatorship. Worsening ...

BERLIN (AP) — A quarter-century after the Berlin Wall crumbled, an election this weekend may show whether Germany is ready for its first state governor from the party descended from East Germany’s ...

An order prohibiting Jews from joining the Communist people’s police is the latest anti-Jewish move in the Soviet-held part of Germany where a drive has been going on to purge Jews from public offices ...

If the German Democratic Republic (GDR)—that is, East Germany—is known for anything, it's an irrepressible sense of fun. And yet, somehow, the country only produced a single arcade cabinet across its ...

Ernst Wollweber is a master craftsman. His trade is trouble. A short, pudgy Communist of 52, with a fat, pockmarked face that has rarely been photographed, he sits at a bureaucrat’s desk in the former ...

FILE - Hans Modrow listens during the last party convention of the PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism), Friday, June 15, 2007 in Berlin. Modrow, who served as East Germany’s last communist leader ...

Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany’s hard-left Die Linke party ...