For 28 years a 155km-long concrete wall snaked through the centre of Berlin, separating the Soviet-backed East from the capitalist West. Built in 1961 to stop residents from fleeing communist ...

German borrowing costs surged by the most since the fall of the Berlin Wall as a pledge to do ‘whatever it takes’ to boost its defences sent its bonds into free fall. In what was described as a ...

The video gained millions of views on TikTok and Instagram, and the democratic socialist party, widely predicted to fall short of the Bundestag’s 5 per cent entry hurdle ... many of them disaffected ...

Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD picking up more than 38% of the vote in one state.

Since Iranian singer-songwriter Gola fled her home country in 2011, she has continued her fight for women's rights in exile Twenty five years ago this autumn the Berlin Wall was pulled down and a wave ...

Starting on Friday the city of Berlin will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most momentous geopolitical events of the 20th century. Germany was ...

The border between East and West Germany shut in 1952, with the divide in Berlin closing in 1961 - separating families and communities overnight. The borders remained shut until the fall of the ...