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East Germany's empty towns try to lure people with 'trial living'

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 ...
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East Germany's Plattenbau: Divisive architecture in the spotlight

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 ...
The National Interest

East Germany’s Army Drew from the Wehrmacht—in Style, Not Substance

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 ...
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Town in eastern Germany is a testing lab for reversing population decline

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 ...
The National Interest

Would East Germany’s S-200 Vega Systems Have Kept NATO at Bay in WWIII?

No major combat incidents occurred in the GDR, but the S-200 system’s presence deterred potential aggressors, aligning with Warsaw Pact exercises and Soviet oversight. East Germany was at the ...
The New York Times

Old Divides of East and West Haunt Germany’s Newest Arrivals

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 ...
The New York Times

This Town Doesn’t Like Rearmament. But It’s Ready to Build Tanks.

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 ...