But Germany once had another flag carrier: Before reunification, Interflug was the national airline of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) or "East Germany." With a far more chequered past, it was a ...

Ampelmann became a rare symbol from the GDR to be adopted in parts of the West. As Germany readies to mark 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell, one symbol of the former communist East has become ...

Lancaster RA508 was one of more than 1,100 planes dispatched to bomb Dortmund on March 12, 1945 – and ... burnt RAF maps were recovered from a crash site in rural Germany. Cologne-based ...

28, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) The evening sun shines on remains of the Berlin Wall at the official Berlin Wall memorial site at Bernauer Strasse, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. ...

In November 1954 the East German author Max Zimmering travelled from the GDR to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). His route was arduous. From East Berlin he flew to Warsaw, then on to ...

IKEA will pay $6.5 million to a German government fund to compensate victims of forced labor in East Germany during the Cold War. Political and criminal prisoners were forced to produce IKEA ...

A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...

East Germany's "Ampelmann" or pedestrian "traffic light man" is now instantly recognisable thanks to his chunky outline and wide-brimmed hat. He almost disappeared along with East Germany in the ...

A row of pedestrian traffic signals featuring the former east German "Ampelmaennchen" (little traffic signal man) show red and green at a pedestrian crossing in Berlin on September 28, 2024.

The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1990, which installed a rigid communist state known as the German Democratic Republic, or GDR. Tens of thousands of its ...

Image Credit: AFP Berlin: As Germany readies to mark 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell, one symbol of the former communist East has become an icon of reunification, seen by millions every time ...

BERLIN (AP) — Most of communist East Germany's heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of the ...