Once a symbol of economic disparity in a reunified Germany, East Germany is now rewriting its legacy. A compelling ...

Heckler & Koch firearms have played an unheralded and destructive role in the civil wars that have consumed the country since ...

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You only have to look at a map of Germany to see where much of its support comes from. ... The border between East and West Germany shut in 1952, with the divide in Berlin closing in 1961 ...

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the early euphoria of reunification, enduring economic inequalities between East and West have hollowed out support for Germany’s major ...

German election results show stark east-west divide decades after fall of Berlin Wall . Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far ...

Germany’s historical Drang nach Osten— push toward the East —has more often than not involved expansion and conquest at its neighbors’ expense. Now West Germany is looking eastward again ...

East Germany's leadership had already sealed off the country's main border with West Germany, which snaked from the Baltic Sea to Czechoslovakia, in 1952. The construction site of the Berlin Wall ...

BERLIN (AP) — Most of communist East Germany's heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of the ...