East Germany

And chancellor Angela Merkel, who was brought up in East Germany, said the night the wall came down was a fulfillment of a dream.

One day, an officer asked him where he would go if he were released, to East Germany or to the West.

If that works, it will just be a question of adding more scanners and computers to expose the truth about East Germany's dark past.

The two Koreas' situation is often compared to that of West and East Germany in the 1980s, but it's more extreme in several ways.

But the textile machinery from the former East Germany looks as if it might even work.

True, as a child of communist East Germany, she is something of an outsider as far as the German centre-right establishment goes.

As someone who grew up in communist East Germany, Ms Merkel has more reason than most to be wary of such an idea.

East Germany was the Warsaw Pact's most advanced member, yet integrating it into the west has been a generational project.

Now, at a train station in communist East Germany, he learns that his mother died while he languished as a political prisoner.

and there was more in the petrol station than in any sort of supermarket I have ever seen in East Germany.

East Germany released Alan Van Norman, a Minnesota man arrested while trying to smuggle an East German family to the West.

The ministry and the chamber continued to be dilatory, so hauls were smuggled in through East Germany.

They want, it seems to me, they want to eat and stay warm, they want not to be East Germany.

The population of East Germany had been unaccustomed to the challenges, the risks, and the opportunities of life in a free society.

The standard of living in the former East Germany has improved significantly since the fall of the Wall, though it still trails the west.

The reason why my mom wanted to leave East Germany was probably because she saw there is no future for me. . .

U. S. troops remained in West Germany and Communist East Germany did not invade.

He dismisses Julian Assange's comparison between the war logs and East Germany's Stasi secret police files.

By then the Hungarians had been working with the West Germans against their supposed comrades in hard-line East Germany for years.

Wolf set up a special department of the Stasi, East Germany's security service, and staffed it with his most handsome, intelligent officers.

East Germany was on the verge of bankruptcy and desperately negotiating with West Germany for a loan.

In 1990 after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the former East Germany became part of the Community as part of a newly united Germany.

As a young woman in communist East Germany, Merkel preserved her freedom of thought by becoming a scientist.

President Obama says the honor is particularly meaningful for the first native of the former East Germany to lead a unified Germany.

Their hope was that a new and better East Germany could be born.

Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state.

The task would make West Germany's absorption of East Germany look like a doddle .

The case is raising concerns in a society still coming to terms with East Germany's legacy of spying on citizens.

It removed the oddity of a separate East Germany, a thorn in the Federal Republic's flesh.

She returned to East Germany by subterfuge, to the chagrin of the authorities who had hoped to lose her.

By her own history, as a daughter of East Germany, Mrs Merkel is averse to division within Europe.

To rule this out, the authors looked at the way communist East Germany weakened social links that encourage migration.

Holland is located in west Europe, near the east Germany, also meets south Belgium.

This question can be roundly rejected as inapplicable to east Germany.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Kohl concluded a treaty with East Germany that unified the two countries' economic systems.

Bush hailed East Germany's decision to give its people unrestricted freedom to travel to the West.

I have even seen a whole country - the country I was born in - East Germany (German Democratic Republic) - vanish in a blink of an eye.

German reunification in 1990 saddled the country with East Germany's low-grade brown coal plants, the dirtiest in Europe.

Unknown to the world, Hitler's corpse was interred at a Smersh centre in Magdeburg, East Germany.

By the mid-1980s he was assigned to East Germany, where he worked undercover, pursuing intelligence on NATO and German politicians.

"East Germany needs its own style of living, " she would say.

Ikea said Friday it was sorry about the episodes and pledged to donate money to research on forced labor in the former East Germany.

Berlin was a part of communist East Germany.

The teachers there understand that communist East Germany was doomed.

SIEBEN LINDEN, a hamlet in former East Germany, half-way between Hamburg and Berlin, looks deceptively normal.

North Korea is much farther behind economically than East Germany was.

He was there to show America's support of West Germany after East Germany had built the Berlin Wall.

West Berlin was in communist East Germany, but not under communist control as was East Berlin.

They were left alone with their traumatic pasts -- in both East Germany and in West Germany.

Communist East Germany erects Berlin Wall to prevent travel westward.

As exports rose, rice became a staple in East Germany, while peasants throughout China ate tree bark.

That year I was skiing during winter in East Germany and spent summer on Black Sea coast.

On April 26, farmers cut the heads off tulips in a field in Schwaneberg in East Germany.

East Germany united with West Germany to form one country.

It wanted to raise money to build another plant in east Germany to supply the European market.

Putin's work in East Germany was precipitously drawing to a close.

In 1989, East Germany's Erich Honecker lost the power he had held for 18 years when the Soviet Union collapsed.

This photo shows East Berliners demonstrating on Oct. 7, 1989, the day East Germany celebrated its 40th anniversary.

After this I traveled overland through East Germany for the first time -- in the past I had always flown.

A complex at Leuna in east Germany, for example, was cleaned up at huge expense after German unification.

Yet outside the former East Germany, nostalgia for the past plays no part in politics.

Trends of pollution in rain over East Germany caused by changing emissions