West Germany adopted its constitution in 1949 and amended it many times, with some controversial additions, such as the ...

The founding of the GDR, supported by the Socialist unity and state party (SED), was the Soviet response to the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany. During the Cold War, the two German states ...

But though the wall stood between 1961 and 1989, it could not survive a massive democratic movement that ended up bringing down the the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and spurring on ...

But three decades later, an invisible barrier still stretches across Germany. It is slowly disintegrating, but it’s still there. The two countries, the GDR and the western Federal Republic of ...

The German Democratic Republic, or GDR, also simply known as East Germany, was founded as a second German state on October 7, 1949 — four years after the end of World War II. The Federal ...

The GDR version of the black-red-gold flag ... the end of the Second World War and the early days of the Federal Republic of Germany, established in 1949. That same year, the Parliamentary Council ...

After the incorporation of the GDR into the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), Gauck was appointed commissioner to oversee the documents of the GDR state security service. Allowing the ...

Heidi Krieger became a victim of the GDR's doping program ... A top-notch sprinter from what was then East Germany (the German Democratic Republic), she had already won a gold medal in the ...

"Preparing the Green Bond Framework for the Federal Republic of Germany was a great challenge and an exciting exercise: extremely detailed and ambitious selection of the eligible expenditures; unique ...