The compound contains the homes of East Germany’s Communist leaders, who like to stick together, and perhaps need to. In all the people’s republic, it is excelled in luxury—and remoteness ...

Once trapped in communist East Germany, bustling Leipzig is now a city of business and of culture. It’s also a city of great history – Martin Luther, Goethe, Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix ...

Things are so bad in Communist East Germany that even the Communists are talking publicly about it. Fortnight ago, submitting East Germany’s 1961 economic goals to the party’s Central ...

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the family was viewed as suspect by the Communist authorities because of his religious role. The fall of the wall, which had divided East and West Germany in Berlin for nearly three decades and ...

About 70,000 East Germans protested in Leipzig on 9 October 1989 - weeks later the Berlin Wall fell. Many feared the communist police would open fire - but they held back. The crowd chanted "We ...

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 ...

Other than being told how fortunate we were to be capitalists while those on the communist side lived lives ... and a chance to see how the East Germany preferred to see itself.