Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945.After decades of division and its revival as the capital ...

Although Berlin was located about 90 miles east from the border between the GDR and West Germany and completely surrounded by the Soviet sector, the city was also originally divided into four ...

It was a unique experience for me, with West Berlin being a little island of freedom deep inside communist East Germany. West ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

The GDR, the German Democratic Republic ... Because immediately people, East Germans went to the checkpoints in Berlin, and a couple of minutes before midnight, the first checkpoint actually ...

The parliamentarians in East Berlin had fulfilled the wishes of the GDR's citizens. They laid the groundwork for the call "We are one people!" to become reality. 45 years after the end of World ...

Successful applicants can spend two weeks in a furnished flat in Eisenhüttenstadt, some 100km southeast of Berlin, in ...

RSO.Berlin is among the recipients of a new grant from the Berlin Senate Chancellery which has been funded by confiscated German Democratic Republic (GDR) assets. Berlin's Senate Chancellery announced ...

which fell 28 years later as communist rule collapsed in East Germany. Germany was reunited in 1990 and the national government moved to Berlin in 1999. Parliament now meets in the restored ...