The Brandenburg Gate symbolized freedom after the fall of the wall. A new Deutsche Welle poll surveying Germans ages 18-29 finds 90 percent think German unification was so successful it should be a ...

Romanticism and nationalism reshape Europe, Germany unifies in 1871, and Austria-Hungary becomes a fragile patchwork of competing identities that points straight to Sarajevo. At the same time, ...

Leipzig. — In old Leipzig, the “city of heroes,” the site of mass demonstrations that led to the collapse of the East German regime two years ago, Auerbach’s Keller is still in business. It is a place ...

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks at the ceremony in the Mecklenburg State Theater. As part of the Bundesrat presidency, Schwerin is hosting the central celebrations for German Unity Day under ...

An academic whose focus includes East Germany and gender theory recently visited Bowdoin to give a talk on the effects of unification 25 years after the historic joining of East and West Germany. The ...

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the concept of "normalcy" has occupied a prominent place in the pronouncements of Germany's most powerful politicians and policymakers. In addition, it has also ...

This is the final program in a three-part series, Freedom Without Walls, heard on NPR FM Berlin. The host, former CNN correspondent Ralph Begleiter, and a panel of experts discuss the night of ...

MOSCOW, Jan. 28 (UPI) --The Russian parliament is considering a denunciation of Germany's 1990 unification as an illegal territorial grab of East Germany by West Germany. The move is an attempt to ...