Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification that followed, more Germans are returning home to the East.

Günter Schabowski, a senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died Nov ...

Eastern German companies are still smaller and generally less efficient than their western counterparts. But the few standouts since the Berlin Wall's fall may offer lessons on how others could ...

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.

With Khrushchev`s blessing, East German leader Erich Honecker started construction of a 27.9-mile wall across the city, along with 74.5 miles of wall separating West Berlin from the rest of East ...

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 ...

When the Berlin Wall came crashing down 30 years ago, so did the East German school system. Former teachers and pupils share their memories.

BERLIN, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The East German lieutenant colonel who gave the fateful order to throw open the Berlin Wall 25 years ago said he wept in silence a few moments later as hordes of euphoric ...

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 Germany on Thursday night opened both the Berlin Wall, the most dramatic and bitter symbol of the Cold War, and its border with West Germany to all of its citizens for the first time in 28 yea… ...

BERLIN (AP) – Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in ...