East Germany produced only one home video game console, the BSS1, in an attempt to close the growing technology gap with the ...

After winning a state election this past weekend, the German far right is closer to power than it has been in decades.

Manuela Schwesig of the center-left SPD has governed the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, on the Baltic Sea coast, since 2017. Ahead of this weekend's election, she is campaigning as thefar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tourists at the border fence of Mödlareuth, a village in eastern Germany known as "Little Berlin." Andreas Drouve/dpa Two families ...

Alternative for Germany hails a "historic" success as preliminary results show a big margin of victory with almost 44% of the ...

No major combat incidents occurred in the GDR, but the S-200 system’s presence deterred potential aggressors, aligning with Warsaw Pact exercises and Soviet oversight. East Germany was at the ...

Jan-Niklas Hustedt remembers going to techno parties in the abandoned canteen of a pump factory that had drastically downsized after reunification, in his hometown of Oschersleben. He was born in East ...

Yosef Tekoah as Israel’s ambassador to the UN from 1968 to 1975. Courtesy of Ben Gurion University of the Negev/Wikipedia A half-century ago on Monday, the United Nations voted to admit West Germany ...

Thirty years ago, on November 9, with a sense of momentous events palpable in Berlin’s famous air, East Germans began streaming through the Berlin Wall, two-stroke East German cars putt-putted past ...

FOR a long time it was fashionable to write of the impending catastrophe in East Germany, of chronic industrial stagnation, incipient economic collapse, even of famine. But, in fact, East German ...