Egon Krenz, East Germany's last hard-line communist leader, was paroled after serving nearly four years of a 6 1/2-year sentence for the shooting deaths of East Germans trying to flee to the West.

Visitors flocked to the once top-secret bunker of Erich Honecker and other leaders of former East Germany as it opened to the public on Friday, almost 19 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Germany’s chancellor and president are former East Germans, but Westerners still dominate German business, 25 years after the Berlin Wall fell.

East German leaders have echoed, parrotlike, the demand for a free city of West Berlin, for withdrawal of allied garrisons and transfer of control of Berlin’s communications from the Soviet to ...

Within East Germany’s rigid Communist Party, Mr. Modrow was widely seen as a reformer in the mold of the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev — he was often called the German Gorbachev, in fact ...

BERLIN (AP) -- Hans Modrow, who served as East Germany's last communist leader during a turbulent tenure that ended in the country's first and only free election, has died. He was 95.

"The defeat of East Germany was my personal defeat," he said. He resigned as East German leader less than a month after the Wall fell. More about Berlin Wall Germany Prison.

The state premier of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has called on the new government of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to take decisive action to kick start the sluggish economy. "No economic growth for ...

- East Germany's new leader, Egon Krenz, promised free elections and new laws on freedom of assembly, association and the press. - "This is a historic day,'' said West Berlin Mayor Walter Momper.

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Feb. 11 (UPI) --The last communist leader of East Germany, Hans Modrow, died Saturday, members of his political party said.He was 95. Modrow led the German Democratic Republic between 1989 and ...