Renowned East German author Christa Wolf dies
December 01, 2011
| AFP
Christa Wolf, one of the best-known authors from former communist East Germany, died on Thursday aged 82 in Berlin following a long illness, her publisher said. The critically...
Archive immortalizes East German Punk rock scene
July 20, 2011
| Reuters
BERLIN (Reuters) - A punk rock pioneer of former communist East Germany (GDR) has opened the world's first archive about the underground GDR youth culture which survived...
German pope ventures into land of Luther and Marx
September 16, 2011
| Reuters
ERFURT, Germany (Reuters) - Indifference, irritation and, inevitably, protest will likely mark a papal trip to the former East Germany that includes an historic meeting in...
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The German Democratic Republic (or DDR), informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was the Communist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany and in the East Berlin portion of the Allied-occupied capital city. The German Democratic Republic, which consisted geographically of northeast Germany rather than all of eastern Germany, had an area of 107,771 km (41,610 mi), bordering Czechoslovakia in the south, West Germany in the south and west, the Baltic Sea to the north, and Poland in the east. In 1989 a non-violent revolution overthrew the Communists....
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