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 ...

Chancellor Brandt was warned but told to act normal while surveillance continued. When arrested at his apartment exactly 51 years ago to last Thursday, Guillaume blurted out: ‘I am an officer of the ...

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 ...

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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a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from fleeing.

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.

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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 ...