At the end of the Cold War, East Germany's systematic doping secrets spilled out. The truth on the other side of the Berlin Wall has taken longer to emerge.

Even after almost 35 years when the so-called German Reunification which was, in reality, a bit more like an Anschluss wherein West-Germany simply took over East-Germany occurred, a divided ...

Marz says that the gap between East and West has widened again in recent years. "The feeling is: We somehow don't understand the others, and we are also not truly understood," she says.

In 1953, swimming against the historical tide, the 16-year-old Biermann moved, alone, from West Germany to the East, just as thousands were fleeing in the other direction in search of a better life.

As the West resolutely girded for any Communist-made showdown on Berlin, East German Puppet Boss Walter Ulbricht showed signs of nervousness. He ordered the 100,000 men of East Germany's ...

As the neutralists dithered and Khrushchev cracked his grim jokes, the Communists kept up their harassment of West Berlin, complaining that some of the passengers flying in from West Germany were ...

East Germany 1-0 West Germany: At the 1974 World Cup, Hamburg played host to an extraordinary meeting of two rival sides. The result was even more unbelievable, writes Adam Bushby .

UEFA Euro 2024 finals stage reopens east-west football divide in Germany. Of the 10 host cities staging UEFA Euro 2024, only one is in the former East Germany – and that venue is not being used ...

In 1990, the East Germans joined West Germany, and therefore NATO, without any real debate. After living under Moscow's tutelage for 40 years, ...

The East/West split is always interesting to us. You grew up in East Germany, where the far-right AfD came out on top in nearly every region in this election.

The narrative of a virtuous West Germany emerging victorious from sport's Cold War was dented when T-Mobile and Keul's Freiburg colleagues were caught up in the Tour de France doping scandal in ...

East v West - Germany's drug-fuelled Cold War for medals "These are all harmless drugs. All athletes take them. It's really nothing special." That was what German heptathlete Birgit Dressel, who ...