In 1978, Gunter Wetzel and Peter Strelzyk decided they could no longer live in the communist state of East Germany. So, the ...

German authorities are discussing the possibility of renaming streets named after GDR and Soviet period figures, including ...

Years before Vladimir Putin became the president of Russia, one of the most powerful leaders in the world, he was a ...

Imagine a world where soccer cleats were also political tools. Stadiums were battlegrounds for Cold War ideologies. Young athletes like Lutz Eigendorf found themselves caught in East Germany’s ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...