Were women in communist East Germany (GDR) truly more emancipated than women in capitalist West Germany? Or is that merely a ...

Hoyer interweaves the experiences of ordinary East German citizens to illustrate what daily life was like under communist ...

In March 1990, 400 East German lawmakers became the first parliamentarians to take power after a free and fair election. Their goal: Germany's reunification. On March 18, 1990, the Christian ...

Although no one could have predicted the extraordinary events that rocked East Germany in the second half of 1989, the Bush administration was slow to react when they occured. During the first ...

The compound contains the homes of East Germany’s Communist leaders, who like to stick together, and perhaps need to. In all the people’s republic, it is excelled in luxury—and remoteness ...