FOR a long time it was fashionable to write of the impending catastrophe in East Germany, of chronic industrial stagnation, incipient economic collapse, even of famine. But, in fact, East German ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The various Warsaw Pact countries produced similar equipment without violating trademark. Throughout the Cold War it was typically said that the army of the Deutsche ...

Made available to the public for the first time, these posters from the archives of the German Historical Museum reveal a regime determined to influence and control the citizens of East Germany.

Scholars often depict the 1973World Festival of Youth and Students—or, more colloquially, the Red Woodstock—as a momentary “departure” or “break” from everyday life, when the German Democratic ...