Depopulated towns in Germany's ex-communist east have come up with a novel scheme to bring back life: offering people several weeks of super-cheap housing to give would-be residents a taste of the ...
A cheap way to manage the housing shortage in former GDR cities, the prefab concrete buildings were long derided for their monotony. Their cultural legacy is now being explored anew.Residential tower ...
The core differences between the East German “National People’s Army” (NVA) and the Nazi German Wehrmacht that came before it were doctrinal in nature. Despite having a handful of outward similarities ...
In Leipzig, a community of camping enthusiasts from former East Germany gathers twice a year to relive a shared past more than three decades after reunification. Around 150 families gather to preserve ...
AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Father and son in Apex restored a rare East German Trabant into driving condition. Only two Trabants are registered in North Carolina ...
No major combat incidents occurred in the GDR, but the S-200 system’s presence deterred potential aggressors, aligning with Warsaw Pact exercises and Soviet oversight. East Germany was at the ...
Many East Germans are more sympathetic toward Moscow than their western compatriots, reflecting decades of Soviet ties and disillusionment since reunification. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting ...
In Germany’s depressed East, even far-right opponents of support for Ukraine have embraced the jobs that come with new weapons production. By Sam Gurwitt Reporting from Görlitz, Germany A pair of red ...