Poland is stepping up defenses with the Baltic states ahead of possible Russian aggression as the war with Ukraine ...

An infamous border passage in East Germany calls to mind the need for compassion in this country for those on the wrong side ...

Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD picking up more than 38% of the vote in one state.

In this context, the Berlin Wall was not just a border, but also a protective barrier against fascism. After 1989, neofascist groups rapidly expanded into East Germany, reinforcing the argument that ...

The lion’s share of the AfD’s votes, however, came from eastern Germany, where they won a huge ... Dusseldorf and Kaiserslautern towards the border with France, both by a thin margin over ...

while East Germany was a communist country with a very poor economy. The border between East and West Germany shut in 1952, with the divide in Berlin closing in 1961 - separating families and ...