Years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the right to freedom of expression remains less important to Germans who lived in the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) than to their West German ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The streamlined express was the pride of the GDR Reichsbahn rail system and once ran from East Berlin via Dresden and Prague to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Light shines in an office building. The proportion of those born in the former communist East Germany who have attained leadership ...

BERLINBERLIN — An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, went on trial Thursday over the killing of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided Berlin 50 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In 2019, the Bundestag voted to create a memorial for the victims of communism. Progress on the project has stalled, but there are now plans to move forward. Situated in the heart of Berlin's ...

BERLIN — An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided ...