On 13 August 1961, the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete ...

Britain had been at war with Germany since Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Despite the fact that Stalin had carved up and invaded Poland in 1939 alongside Hitler, the USSR allied itself ...

In the event of a peace settlement dividing Ukraine in two, the nations of the West have a critical interest in strengthening ...

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The lessons to learn are: avoid war, and the drum-beating that precedes it. And avoid technocratic utopian groupthink; avoid ideologies masquerading as science. The Nazi Hunger Plan was devised by an ...

The East Germans were very lucky,'' an unidentified West German ... including East Germany, it is a crumb of comfort that it took place at the bitter end of the Cold War in an area where the ...

German showrunners have discovered that life on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain makes for gripping television. In the years following reunification, depictions of life in East Germany were ...

Gerlinde Schultze, 46, from Berlin, poses with her 1-week-old purebred East German ... East Germany, which went out of existence at reunification in 1990 at the end of the Cold War.

In the summer of 1975, with the icy fingers of the Cold War still exerting a tight grip on global politics, the leaders of ...