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.

Although no one could have predicted the extraordinary events that rocked East Germany in the second half ... government's decision in September to open its borders to allow more than 12,000 ...

On Feb. 26, a tourist from Wales, Becky Burke, a backpacker traveling across North America, was stopped at the U.S.-Canada ...

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.

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 ...

The records at Rostock University, in Germany’s former east, listed Lilli Gruner as a student in 1961, but by 1962, her name was crossed out in all the records.

They were crossing the border from Hungary, where the regime had torn gaping holes in the Iron Curtain that separated East from West. Meanwhile at home in East Germany, for those protesters who ...