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Life in the Communist-ruled German Democratic Republic (GDR) was simpler and sometimes could be “almost comfortable in a certain way”, Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in the former East ...

My life was a mess. I asked God to take ... impossible to have a Christian church registered by the Communist government of East Germany. As a result, they started their church as a small prayer ...

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 ...

As the country celebrated 17 years of reunification last week, some animosities between the formerly communist East ... nostalgia about life in former East Germany, which went out of existence ...

the focus of “The Spies Among Us,” as well as our guide to Germany’s history with communist dictatorship. Keup was imprisoned for attempting to escape East Germany, but ultimately had his ...