Andrius Kubilius, European Commissioner for Defence and Space, has called on Lithuania and neighbouring Baltic countries to ...

Amid all that automotive testosterone, Mitch Armbruster of Apex and his son Noah stood next to their Trabant, a Cold War ...

In many parts of eastern Germany, showing Nazi symbols is no longer seen as a provocation. It's become a trend across cities and regions in Germany-- especially in the east. "In parts of rural eastern ...

These contradictions are beautifully captured in Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany, German-British historian Katja Hoyer’s second book.

Yet the door to the romanticization of East German communism is already being cracked open by Katja Hoyer with Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany (2023). And a masterful cracking it is.

In 1961, the Soviet-backed government did the only thing it could think of to prevent East Germans from escaping: it built the Berlin Wall.

In the face of this disappearance, the East German-born historian Katja Hoyer has written “Beyond the Wall,” an exhaustive — and, at times, exhausting — attempt to restore the lost state ...

West German companies benefited from the lower wages in the GDR, while the GDR received advanced industrial technology. Ordinary East Germans benefitted very little however.

East Germans wept, hugged, and danced in both halves of divided Berlin today after East Germany opened its borders for the first time since 1961.

Simply sign up to the German economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The summer after the Berlin Wall fell, in 1990, I did anthropological research in an East German village that ...

In the early hours of Sunday, August 13th, 1961, communist East Germany's authorities began building the Berlin Wall, cutting the city in two and plugging the last remaining gap in the Iron Curtain.

For one group, at least, the erection of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 was a stroke of luck. Over the following decades, the Wall would be the lifeblood of the East German secret police ...