Depopulated towns in Germany's ex-communist east have come up with a novel scheme to bring back life: offering people several weeks of super-cheap housing to give would-be residents a taste of the ...
A cheap way to manage the housing shortage in former GDR cities, the prefab concrete buildings were long derided for their monotony. Their cultural legacy is now being explored anew.Residential tower ...
EISENHÜTTENSTADT, Germany — Back behind the Iron Curtain, when this town 75 miles southeast of Berlin was called Stalinstadt, it was meant to be a blueprint for utopian life in Communist East Germany ...
Though spared from actual warfare, the tank’s role in deterrence and crisis response was crucial, influencing global military dynamics and leaving an indelible mark on armored history. During the Cold ...
The core differences between the East German “National People’s Army” (NVA) and the Nazi German Wehrmacht that came before it were doctrinal in nature. Despite having a handful of outward similarities ...
Refugees who poured into the country a decade ago fared better when they landed in the more prosperous West, an enduring legacy of reunification. By Jim Tankersley and Ekaterina Bodyagina Visuals by ...
In Germany’s depressed East, even far-right opponents of support for Ukraine have embraced the jobs that come with new weapons production. By Sam Gurwitt Reporting from Görlitz, Germany A pair of red ...
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