Packed with historical buildings and a stunning landscape, this picturesque German town looks like it came straight out of a ...
How East Germany's 'traffic light man' became a beloved icon As Germany readies to mark 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell, one symbol of the former communist East has become an icon of reunification ...
But after the war, he did not talk about the Middle East, Greece, Africa or the Pacific and ... and he lives in a small ...
With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East German culture disappeared practically overnight, cast aside for the newly ...
Sanary-sur-Mer is where the good guys fled. The good German guys. The good gifted German guys – intellectual heavyweights on the run from Hitler. It isn’t immediately obvious. Sanary appears to be, ...
After leaving Germany in 1933, novelist Leon Feuchtwanger ... You may follow it round town on a circuit past the key spots where exiles lived. Information panels punctuate the route.
Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are ...
Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom ...
Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are ...
Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, nostalgia for the old days and ways of socialist East Germany is stronger than ever. Germans even have a name for the phenomenon: “Ostalgie.” From ...