The district administration in Dresden was one of the most important centers of power of the GDR's State Security, or “Stasi.“ The original rooms of the Stasi headquarters have been preserved ...

Throughout the summer of 1989, the Communist regime found itself under enormous pressure because huge numbers of East Germans were slipping through to the West by avoiding East Germany's lethally ...

In the years following reunification, depictions of life in East Germany were relatively rare in German popular culture. The history was still too unsettled to fit easily into movies and TV shows. But ...