On 3 October 1990 the GDR acceded to the Federal Republic of Germany. Much has changed since then – nationally and internationally. How does reunification look after 20 years?

Every country has generations that influence the social and political trajectory more than others. In Germany the post-war generation stands for the reconstruction of a war-torn country and the...

On October 7, 1949, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded. The communist state existed for four decades with the German-German border forming the hottest frontline of the Cold War. The GDR...

Young Germany interviews Art Harman from Virginia, one of the few remaining sellers of authentic pieces of the Berlin Wall

YG gets the inside scoop on the After the Fall documentary from co-director Eric Black

For citizens of Germany, there are few events in modern history as significant as the fall of the Berlin Wall. On November 9, 1989, the physical symbol of the political and emotional divisions of...

When Günter Schabowski announced that East Berliners would be permitted to enter West Berlin “effective immediately, without delay,” the impact was massive. For literally millions of people living in...

It’s cold. It’s gray. The rain is light enough that an umbrella would be inconvenient and unnecessary, but heavy enough to be sufficiently annoying. My ears are at full stretch as I try to discern...