In 1980s East Germany, there was a group of independent fashion designers, photographers, models and stylists who refused to play along with the socialist regime’s excessive egalitarianism. They ...

Thomas Fleischman has been obsessed with pigs for the better part of the last decade. Tracing the history of East Germany’s birth in the immediate aftermath of World War II to its sudden collapse in ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

By the late 1960s, East Germany’s ideological allies had come to resent its reputation as a paragon of international socialism. The regime’s public relations campaign was so successful that a 1978 ...

Beyond the Wall. By Katja Hoyer. Allen Lane; 496 pages; £25. To be published in America by Basic Books in September; $35 In the eyes of its critics, the communist-run part of Germany was never a ...

East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was once a prominent player in the Eastern Bloc, with a relatively advanced industrial base during the Cold War. However, one of ...

Drummer Christoph "Doom" Schneider's music history pre-dates Rammstein. Before the Berlin Wall came down in Germany, he was part of the underground music scene in the late '80s and even shared a band ...

Contemporary works are casting a new light on sentimentality for Communism. By Evan Moffitt WHEN THE ARTIST Henrike Naumann first saw “The Flintstones” on TV, she thought it depicted what life was ...

Hoyer has several important advantages that Steinbeck and Capa lacked. East Germany’s fearsome internal security apparatus is long gone, which means her surviving subjects are free to speak openly ...

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.