It's not a lakeside villa or a downtown condominium - it's an unassuming property nestled in a forest near Pasewalk, a German town west of the Polish border, that Heinz Fuhrmann wants to sell for €1 ...

German unification started 30 years ago with a peaceful, joyous night as East Germans crossed freely into the west for the first time in decades. But German unification is far from done. East Germans ...

Camping was popular in East Germany when travel options were limited. Families spent summers at lakes, in forests, or at ...

BERLIN – Kai Feller was 16 when his fellow students put him on trial. On that early autumn day in 1988, pupils stood up to denounce Feller and seven other troublemakers as "traitors" and "pacifists." ...

Hoyer has several important advantages that Steinbeck and Capa lacked. East Germany’s fearsome internal security apparatus is long gone, which means her surviving subjects are free to speak openly ...

Rolling into Germany with salvage crews and empty freight cars, the Soviet conquerors of 1945 carted off everything of value. To Mother Russia went East Germany’s ...

FOR a long time it was fashionable to write of the impending catastrophe in East Germany, of chronic industrial stagnation, incipient economic collapse, even of famine. But, in fact, East German ...

Near the East German village of Wandlitz, nine miles to the east of Berlin, is a most unusual settlement. It is a walled-in compound of semi-forested land and wide lawns, within which sit some 20 ...

Take It from Albuquerque: Free Transit Is a Bad Idea When Financial Industry Regulators Are Judge, Prosecutor, and Beneficiary The Fed Should Do One Thing — and One Thing Only Patients Win with Free ...

Reporting from Dresden, Germany — Ingolf Koecher and his wife, Bettina, have marched in 120 anti-Islam rallies in the former East German city of Dresden during the last four years. The retired factory ...

From 1949 to 1990, East Germany was almost completely closed off to foreigners. “The East German Handbook” (Taschen, $40), by Justinian Jampol, brings to light some 2,000 objects from the now defunct ...

KHRUSHCHEV’S visits to Berlin have become the most significant single feature of the East German year. In 1957 the Soviet Premier bestowed his blessing before the Volkskammer on the plan to form a ...