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East Germany

A large group of people are shown climbing on the Berlin Wall on the night it was opened.
Love, friendship, protest: 3 former East Germans reflect on the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years later
A woman holds a video camera in her hand in a black and white photo
Vintage home movies show another side of life in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall
A group of four people stare up at a wooden marker
No regrets: East Germans recall attempts to escape Communist state
Women hold bags and signs that read: "Same pay for same work" at a rally for equal pay in Berlin, Germany, 2015.
Jobs
Women in Germany’s east earn close to what men do. Can we thank socialism for that?
Bad Doberan, Germany is the home of Zappanale, an annual summer festival inspired by the life and work of Frank Zappa.
Culture
In the former East Germany, Frank Zappa lives on as a beacon of freedom
Golzow mayor Frank Schütz, left, leans over to whisper a question to Rasha Haimoud during a holiday concert. She and her husband, Ahmad Haimoud, are refugees who settled in the small former East German town after escaping the war in their native Syria
Education
Worried about its future, this former East German city recruited Syrian refugees
A part of the inner city of Berlin will be temporarily divided from November 7 to 9, 2014, with a light installation featuring 8,000 luminous white balloons to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Here a woman walks in front of
Global Politics
During the Cold War, buying people from East Germany was common practice
A cover illustration for the Communist-era board game Burokratopoly, which is being re-launched by Berlin's DDR Museum.
Culture
To understand life in East Germany, all you need is this board game
Arts, Culture & Media
New documentary looks at development of skateboarding culture in East Germany
Conflict & Justice
Snowden Case Continues to Stir Anger About Domestic Spying in Europe
Arts, Culture & Media
IKEA Apologizes for Having Used Political Prisoners’ Labor in East Germany
Global Politics
Germany Questions West-to-East Aid
Arts, Culture & Media
Documentary ‘This Ain’t California’ Looks at East Germany’s Skateboard Culture
Arts, Culture & Media
Preserving the Cold War in Sunny California
Arts, Culture & Media
Hometown of A Capella Group ‘amarcord’
German Elections
Arts, Culture & Media
Stasi lawsuit chills research
Arts, Culture & Media
The Cold War’s aesthetic revival
Recovering East German Stasi documents