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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

To see what life was like as a consumer in the former East Germany, the best place to start is at a museum. At Berlin's DDR Museum, Stefan Wolle points to a cabinet filled with packages of coffee ...

Katja Hoyer on East Germany, behind the Berlin Wall and the Cold War caricature. ... Anne McElvoy hears about a new history of East Germany and why we need to dismantle the old clichés about the DDR.

The choice of date for transferring the files, June 17, also bears symbolic significance for East German history. On this day in 1953, the GDR regime and Soviet troops crushed a popular uprising ...