Frieder Reimold, a former Berlin bureau chief of The Associated Press German-language service who wrote the iconic 1989 bulletin that East Germany had opened its borders, has died. He was 80.

Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD picking up more than 38% of the vote in one state.

The border closures are set to last six months and are threatening to test European unity. Most of Germany's neighbors are fellow members of the European Union, a 27-country bloc based on the ...

Horst Antosch of Wailuku holds an East Germany border sign Thursday at the Kaunoa Senior Center in Spreckelsville. Antosch, a former East Germany resident, took the sign after the fall of the ...

History student Anita Kraetzner-Ebert was doing archive research for an exam back in 2008 when she came across a name that has stayed with her ever since. The records at Rostock University, in ...

Throughout the summer of 1989, the Communist regime found itself under enormous pressure because huge numbers of East Germans were slipping through to the West by avoiding East Germany's lethally ...