Newspapers on Monday morning carried a striking – and stark – political map of Germany in 2024. The Berlin coalition colours – red, green and yellow – are almost nowhere to be seen.

The stark east-west divide in national vote share from Germany’s national election on Sunday has been revealed in new data. News agency Reuters has created a map using result figures that show a ...

Germany’s historical Drang nach Osten— push toward the East —has more often than not involved expansion and conquest at its neighbors’ expense. Now West Germany is looking eastward again ...

In 1953, swimming against the historical tide, the 16-year-old Biermann moved, alone, from West Germany to the East, just as thousands were fleeing in the other direction in search of a better life.

NPR's Guy Raz reports from the eastern German city of Schwerin that since East Germany adopted the West German currency ten years ago, the road to economic reform in the East has been rocky.

Having been in Berlin on that euphoric occasion in November 1989 when the Wall came down, I went on to extensively tour the soon-to-be-abolished East Germany during the following Easter holiday.

Most of the party's prominent figures were socialized in the old, compromise-oriented Federal Republic, unlike in East Germany, where the legacy of two failed dictatorships continues to influence ...