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The far-right AfD is leading the polls in former GDR regions – and longstanding bias in German media and politics is partly to blame, says German-British historian Katja Hoyer

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:…

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

This vivid autobiographical novel – now published in English for the first time – offers an intriguing insight into East Germany in the early 60s