East German lawmakers became the first parliamentarians to take power after a free and fair election. Their goal: Germany's ...

"Women in Divided Germany" is the title of an exhibition 35 years after reunification. It sheds light on the realities of life for women in former East and West Germany.Were women in communist ...

Some of that support is fuelled by resentment that 35 years after Germany reunified, wages in the east are still lower than the west. People are increasingly disconnected from centrist politicians ...

An astounding map that has emerged from Germany’s general election has shown just how divided the nation at the heart of Europe is.

The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis. Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne ...

For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from fleeing. Independent producers Carl… On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

They’re the strongest party in east Germany.” When the Wall came down, reunification followed soon after. Under the leadership of West Germany’s Christian Democrat chancellor Helmut Kohl ...

Now, 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is crucial to examine how the destruction of these border fortifications paved the way for an unprecedented influx of neofascist groups into East ...

Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD picking up more than 38% of the vote in one state.