Vintage photos capture the passion and restlessness of East Germany’s youth Jacopo Prisco, CNN 3 minute read Updated 4:25 AM EST, Thu November 7, 2019 Link Copied! CNN ...

EISENACH, Germany (AP) — Thirty years after Germany was reunited, many once-decrepit city centers in the formerly communist east have been painstakingly restored and new factories have sprung… ...

From 1949 to 1990, East Germany was almost completely closed off to foreigners. “The East German Handbook” (Taschen, $40), by Justinian Jampol, brings to light some 2,000 objects from the now ...

On Sept. 1, 1939, one week after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact, more than a million German troops—along with 50,000 Slovakian soldiers—invaded Poland. Two ...

Photographer Siegfried Wittenburg angered officials in East Germany during the 1980s with his pictures showing the drabness of life under communism. The authorities forbade him to exhibit them ...

Concerned about security problems, the East German communist regime ordered border guards to snap photos of the Berlin Wall in the 1960s. The images, which were top secret, were lost in an archive ...

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Vintage photos capture the passion and restlessness of East Germany’s youth Jacopo Prisco, CNN 3 minute read Updated 4:25 AM EST, Thu November 7, 2019 Link Copied! CNN ...

A former East German watch tower stands on a hill high above the former border area between East and West Germany in Unterweid, eastern Germany, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. Thirty years after Germany ...