The German branch of Ikea has pledged millions to compensate victims of the former Communist East German regime, who were forced to make furniture components in the GDR. Germany's Bundestag ...

In 1989, the East German band Karat had it all: black leather blazers, feathered mullets and gold records that even made it across the border to West Germany. Then suddenly, everything changed for ...

In 2010, NKIDP made headlines with the release of a collection of (East) German STASI files detailing established diplomatic procedures for transiting South Korean citizens through the German ...

The Middle East has long recognized ... in modernizing their tank fleets, acquiring advanced models from their Western allies like the American M1 Abrams and the German Leopard 2.

Richard Nowakowski was an East German boxer who played football as a youth. One of his youth coaches was Fritz Sdunek, now a well-known, successful boxing coach, who helped him to win the East German ...

Ikea was among many companies that profited from forced labor in prisons under the former East German dictatorship. Its decision to contribute compensation in the form of a "hardship fund" might ...

The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is not an alternative to the established parties, but rather an attempt to erect new ...

Stasi spies in NATO obtained actual war plans of the alliance, yet East German and Soviet leaders saw these essentially defensive plans as a cover for a forthcoming first strike—a fear that peaked in ...

BERLIN - Ikea pledged on Oct 29 to pay €6 million (S$8.6 million) into a hardship fund for victims of the East German dictatorship after admitting some of its suppliers used political prisoners ...

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 ...

Leopard 2 battle tanks participate in a drill at the German Army training grounds in Munster, Germany, on Feb. 07, 2022. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) WARSAW, Poland — The government of Croatia has ...