Want to spend a night in East Germany and experience the way things used to be? A new youth hostel has opened in Berlin seeking to offer visitors a taste of life before the Wall fell and a bit of ...
The Stasi, the intelligence service in communist East Germany, spied on Silke Orphal and Ilona Seeber for years, but it wasn't until the two women went through their files that they realized how ...
As the Palast der Republik, the former house of the East German parliament is gradually dismantled, a new temple to the failed state has opened its doors a stone's throw away: the DDR Museum. Critics ...
Twenty-five years after the Berlin wall came down, 'Ostalgia,' the longing for East German products like Spreewald gherkins and Halloren chocolate balls, is alive and well. And it's not just about ...
The lackadaisical hero of the older generations when they were still children, Till Eulenspiegel comes to the cinema at the Goethe Centre. Filmed in 1974, this rendition of Eulenspiegel is however not ...
The Crypto Museum, which introduces equipment that has been used in past cryptographic communications, has taken up the shortwave transmitter `` DDR Type 2 '' developed by the East German Ministry of ...
Die Diskussionen über die Sterbehilfe, die in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (DDR) geführt wurden, sind in der historischen Aufarbeitung bislang wenig beachtet worden. Auf der Grundlage ...
One of the most iconic movie theaters in middle of the city of Berlin, Germany is the Kino International. This classic one-screen movie palace is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. The cinema ...