East Germans fleeing communism were once housed there. - 'Grief, depression, trauma' - Many communities have long complained ...

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 ...

Most West German women stayed at home and were expected to take care of their household while their husbands worked. Religion ...

The all-encompaning privatizing shock that overtook East German industry after the Berlin Wall collapsed impacted football as well. Formerly state-ran clubs in the east suddenly had to compete with ...

Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of ...

November 9 an imprecise instruction led to the collapse of the border infrastructure surrounding West Berlin, as Berliners ...

Ikea’s German branch will pay a landmark €6 million compensation for the political prisoners in East Germany who were forced ...

IKEA will pay $6.5 million to a German government fund to compensate victims of forced labor in East Germany during the Cold War. Political and criminal prisoners were forced to produce IKEA furniture ...

The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1990, which installed a rigid communist state known as the German Democratic Republic, or GDR. Tens of thousands of its ...