After World War II, the Soviet Union transformed their occupied zone in Germany into the German Democratic Republic. One of the many communist states in the Eastern Bloc, East Germany developed a ...

The German children's series "In Fritzi's Footsteps — What Was Life Like in East Germany?" has won an International Emmy Award for its innovative depiction of the world behind the Berlin Wall. Some 35 ...

Jenny Erpenbeck became a writer when her childhood and her country, the German Democratic Republic, disappeared, swallowed by the materialist West. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger first traveled to ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.