The discovery, made by architect Mark Aretz, revealed a small one-bedroom apartment evidently abandoned quickly by its occupants as the Communist East German state disintegrated in 1989 ...

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War.

Germans began casting ballots Sunday for a regional election in a formerly communist eastern state where the far-right AfD ...

QUESTION: Was the East German sports doping programme mandated by the government? The doping programme of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) was a ­systematic, state-run effort ...

After elections in Thuringia and Saxony, the far-right AfD party has again massively gained in a poll in eastern Germany. Now ...

They were the first babies of newly reunified Germany. Some were born in a vanished state, East German communist symbols stamped in their birth certificates. Others shortly after German ...

Instead, Voigt would need the additional support of Ramelow’s Left Party, with which the CDU traditionally opposes governing as it is the successor of the East German state party SED.

Germany’s eastern states may be turning to the far right out of a combination of poor economic growth that is fuelling ...

The radical Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which ran on nativist anti-immigrant populism, led Sunday’s election in the East German state of Thuringia with 32.8 percent of the vote ...

But both her anticipated success and the strength of AfD in the former East have generated much – often condescending – debate among German commentators about whether Ossis and Wessis would ...

But the AfD, deemed "right-wing extremist" by security officials in both of the east German states, is unlikely to be able to govern as other parties have so far refused to collaborate with it to ...

The German government is concerned that if the conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah spreads over the Middle East, the ensuing destruction would be "catastrophic." ...