Thirty years after the border between East and West Germany ceased to exist by the stroke of a pen on Oct. 3, 1990, it remains one of the most important psychological dividers in the country.

You only have to look at a map of Germany to see where much of its support comes from.. Almost all of the old East Germany has turned AfD blue. The party has always been more popular in German ...

East Germany closed the border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, and expanded the Wall into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around the capitalist enclave of West Berlin.