Near the East German village of Wandlitz, nine miles to the east of Berlin, is a most unusual settlement. It is a walled-in compound of semi-forested land and wide lawns, within which sit some 20 ...

However, the East German régime is so completely interlocked with the group of states led by the Soviet Union that any East European policy disregarding the German problem would be unrealistic. In all ...

Katja Hoyer’s "Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany" presents a nuanced and thought-provoking history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Unlike the traditional Western perspective ...

Nowadays, most of the refugees remain in camps for only a few days of routine processing, then are sluiced on to jobs in booming, labor-short West German indus try. Although East German leaders ...

Tim Mohr, the journalist and translator who chronicled the political importance of the 1980s East German punk scene and co-wrote memoirs with Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and Kiss leader Paul ...