Many of us only know the former East Germany (GDR) at second hand, through the eviscerating prose of Anna Funder (in Stasiland) or Timothy Garton Ash (The File), or through bracing, daunting films ...

The Stasi Records Agency is a legacy of the peaceful revolution in the GDR. Now its name is disappearing, but its spirit is to live on elsewhere.

Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labour under Germany’s communist dictatorship, in a move ...

East Germany's state film company film studio, DEFA, was founded on May 17, 1946. A look back at the GDR's film industry and what is left of it.