Within the course of my official duties, the most common question I have been asked since the fall of the Honecker regime in East Germany relates to the French perspective on German unification. There ...

The Brandenburg Gate symbolized freedom after the fall of the wall. A new Deutsche Welle poll surveying Germans ages 18-29 finds 90 percent think German unification was so successful it should be a ...

The Second Schleswig War of 1864 was a pivotal conflict that ignited the flames of unity and reshaped Europe's destiny.

Leipzig. — In old Leipzig, the “city of heroes,” the site of mass demonstrations that led to the collapse of the East German regime two years ago, Auerbach’s Keller is still in business. It is a place ...

An academic whose focus includes East Germany and gender theory recently visited Bowdoin to give a talk on the effects of unification 25 years after the historic joining of East and West Germany. The ...

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the concept of "normalcy" has occupied a prominent place in the pronouncements of Germany's most powerful politicians and policymakers. In addition, it has also ...

On October 7, 1870, one of those minor, anecdotal episodes that pepper History amidst greater events took place. A hydrogen balloon named Armand-Barbès lifted off from Paris, setting out towards Tours ...

MOSCOW, Jan. 28 (UPI) --The Russian parliament is considering a denunciation of Germany's 1990 unification as an illegal territorial grab of East Germany by West Germany. The move is an attempt to ...