Three weeks ago the Communist regime of East Germany began to insist that foreign diplomats show their passports when they crossed between East and West Berlin. Once more, the government’s aim was to ...

The proportion of those born in the former communist East Germany who have attained leadership positions in reunified Germany is rising only slowly 35 years after reunification, the commissioner for ...

The Alternative for Germany party was on course to win in Thuringia, according to projections, in what was seen as a worrying sign of the health of German democracy. By Steven Erlanger and Christopher ...