FILE PHOTO: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and German Chancellor Angela Merkel address the media during a news conference in Berlin BERLIN (Reuters) - Life in the Communist-ruled German ...

An order prohibiting Jews from joining the Communist people’s police is the latest anti-Jewish move in the Soviet-held part of Germany where a drive has been going on to purge Jews from public offices ...

BERLINBERLIN — Germany’s parliament on Friday commemorated the 70th anniversary of a popular uprising in the Communist east that was brutally crushed by its Soviet-backed dictatorship. Worsening ...

Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany’s hard-left Die Linke party ...

BERLIN -- Germany on Sunday celebrates the 25th anniversary of the night the Berlin Wall fell, a pivotal moment in the collapse of communism and the start of the country's emergence as the major power ...

A prominent Communist leader of non-Jewish stock, whom the present East German regime purged and jailed at the height of the Communist anti-Semitic wave some years ago after accusing him of being a ...

BERLIN, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Life in the Communist-ruled German Democratic Republic (GDR) was simpler and sometimes could be "almost comfortable in a certain way", Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up ...

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BERLINBERLIN — Hans Modrow, who served as East Germany’s last communist leader during a turbulent tenure that ended in the country’s first and only free election, has died. He was 95. Modrow died ...