Half of the 200,000 East German refugees who have been arriving each year in the Federal Republic are under the age of twenty-five; their loss grows more serious each year to East Germany, for a ...

Now that “DDR/DDR,” Amie Siegel’s film essay on the legacies of the former German Democratic Republic and its surveillance culture, is receiving a one-week commercial release, she wants us ...

Opened in May by entrepreneurs Daniel Helbig, 35, and Guido Sand, 33, Ostel -- a German mashup of "East" and "Hostel" -- lucratively exploits the trend of "Ostalgie," or nostalgia for the lost ...

As the Palast der Republik, the former house of the East German parliament is gradually dismantled, a new temple to the failed state has opened its doors a stone's throw away: the DDR Museum.

MODERN EAST: Build Your Own Modernist DDR is the new book by Zupagrafika celebrating socialist modernist and brutalist architecture of the former East Germany and allows you to playfully ...

The DDR refers to the former East Germany. The recent Thuringian rise of the Die Linke, a democratic descendant of the communist party which ruled old East Germany, has stirred emotions in Germany.

Much of the former East Germany has had its vestiges of that era wiped away, inspiring an odd longing for the 40 years the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) held power that is called Ostalgie ...

DDR Type 2 is a valve-type shortwave covert radio transmitter developed in the early 1960s by Operativ Technischer Sektor, a division of the Ministry of State Security known in former East Germany ...

East Germany, In The Rear-View Mirror. By George Robinson May 4, 2010 12:00 am. ... “DDR/DDR,” which begins a week-long run at Anthology Film Archives on May 7, ...