I am absolutely convinced that without Pope John Paul II, German reunification would not have been possible,” Martin ...

Like many other young women living in communist East Germany, Solveig Leo thought nothing about juggling work and motherhood. The mother of two was able to preside over a large state-owned farm in the ...

Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of ...

Go Trabi Go! I keep thinking of that iconic 1991 film which so brilliantly portrayed an East German family in the first ...

In the first week of May, following Adolph Hitler’s suicide on April 30, the Nazi regime collapsed. Berlin fell to the Soviets, and Axis armies in Italy gave up. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered, ...

This undated photo shows a section of the Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse with parts of the Lazarus Sisters' mother house in West Berlin at right.

As Germany celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago on Nov. 9 1989, women look back at how different their lives were under communism in East and capitalism in West Germany ...

BERLIN (AP) — Like many other young women living in communist East Germany, Solveig Leo thought nothing about juggling work ...