The wall came down amid unrest in East Germany and a wave of ... capitalist West Germany. The East German economy was so underdeveloped in the years since reunification, and that part of the country ...

The all-encompaning privatizing shock that overtook East German industry after the Berlin Wall collapsed impacted football as ...

When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, no one believed it would ultimately lead to its fall.

After the German reunification following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the economy of East Germany was characterized by lower incomes, higher unemployment and weaker growth compared to the West.

Almost all of the old East Germany has turned AfD blue. The party has always been more popular in German areas that were once under Soviet rule, but this year has tightened its grip. In the stronghold ...