From 1950 to 1990, East Germany and its people were controlled by the Ministry of State Security, or Stasi, which resembled how the KGB operated in the USSR in that its goal was less about ...

all signs indicated that Khrushchev has no intention of giving up control of his half. Communist economic blueprints under the new seven-year plan point plainly to East Germany’s assigned role ...

What had been a fraught border crossing marked by intrusive inspections and suspicious guards became as simple as slipping ...

The throb of unrest in East Germany can be accurately measured by the flow of refugees to the West. For about a year the number of East Germans seeking sanctuary was a fairly steady 6,500 a month.