The Latest Breaking News from East Germany

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a team of archivists has been tirelessly sorting, pasting and reassembling documents that were destroyed by the Stasi, the East German secret police. Nicknamed the "Puzzle Women", these heroines of collective memory face the Herculean task of piecing together these files:…

In December 1963, an agreement between East and West Germany allowed West Berliners to obtain one-day passes to visit relatives in East Berlin

Prosecutors say a former member of communist East Germany’s secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided Berlin in 1974

A Soviet blockade of the three western sectors of Berlin started on June 24 1948. At that point, the city, like the rest of Germany, was split into areas of Russian, British, US and French control as part of the post-second world war settlement that was shaped in allied conferences…

The contours of a relationship are echoed by the collapse of East Germany in this invigorating novel of lost love

Is Britain’s sudden appetite for the GDR an unhealthy obsession? Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall, examines the new wave of books and shows about life under the Stasi in the vanished state

Born to Ukrainian parents in communist East Germany, the software developer Vlad Yatsenkopreviously worked for Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, where he built traditional financial systems.

Samuel Meffire was the face of an ad campaign to show a different side to the former GDR but later served time for armed robbery

Sam — A Saxon on Disney Plus stars Malick Bauer and follows the true story of the first black police officer in East Germany.

This revisionist history of East Germany paints a picture of a land that catered for its people’s needs – albeit while subjecting them to constant state surveillance

A revisionist history that adds stability, contentment and women’s rights to the familiar picture of authoritarianism