About an hour into the rambling news conference, Schabowski mentioned that East Germany was lifting all restrictions on travel across its border into West Germany. Pressed on when the new ...

When East Germany was split off from the West in the aftermath of World War ... Trouble is that Communism’s proven means of sealing borders—land-mined strips, barbed-wire barriers and machine ...

Although no one could have predicted the extraordinary events that rocked East Germany in ... to open its borders to allow more than 12,000 East Germans to leave for the West.

East Germany’s government had developed strict ... around 3.5 million East Germans migrated to the West. After the border was fortified and emigration severely restricted, the number of people ...

If tariffs are likely to win any poll of Trump’s most significant disruptions, then his view that the present borders of the ...

it would create a shining alternative for the Russians living in dismal conditions across the new border. And much as West Germany inspired a desire for democracy among East Germans, a prosperous ...

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 ...

This also applies to East Germany, even if here exports to the US play a smaller role than for the West German economy. In 2024, gross domestic product (GDP) in East Germany fell by 0.1% ...

Germany has accepted large numbers of refugees from the Middle East over the past decade, but now a political backlash is building, with support growing for a far-right party. That party ...