Less than a month later, the GDR collapsed entirely, and in 1990, Germany reunified. The Soviet Union followed suit, and today the fall of the Berlin Wall is seen as a symbol of the end of 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 ...

With its ruling on the Basic Treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR dated 31 July 1973, the German Constitutional Court kept the German question open, since it once again obliged ...

The GDR, a past that still refuses to go away in Germany Written by a young historian, a new book breaks away from Cold War stereotypes to depict 'normal life' in the German Democratic Republic.

These were part of the success of the GDR in competitive sports – evidenced in East Germany’s proud Olympic statistics and medal tallies. Doping alone would not have achieved all of that.

ON November 9, 1989, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) relinquished its border security to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). While the world watched images of euphoric citizens pouring into ...

Germany on Tuesday marked the anniversary of the 1953 uprising in Berlin against the East German communist government. "We ...

I’m currently reading a brilliant history of East Germany, ‘Beyond The Wall’ by Katja Hoyer. It would be unfair to compare the GAA and the GDR (Germany Democratic Republic) too closely ...

On the morning of August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up to a concrete wall, reinforced with barbed wire and watchtowers, built overnight by the Soviet bloc to separate the part of Germany that had been ...

Four years later, the British, French and American sectors became a parliamentary democracy, the Federal Republic of Germany, while the Soviet zone, led by a Marxist-Leninist party, became the G.D.R.

Her performance was no accident of history. In its 40-year existence, East Germany dominated the Olympic Games. Despite its small size—the country’s population never rose past 19 million—the ...