It was the day when peace broke out across Europe, when a war-weary country threw off the shackles of fear on their great day ...

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over the Nazis in an intense fight for the German ...

How Germany processes its Nazi history is an increasingly pressing concern. For many, the question is how to move on without ...

"Original GDR Soft Ice Cream" has become a genuine money-spinner for Steffen Pretzsch, 56, who runs an ice cream parlour near ...

You would be hard pressed to visit every castle in Germany. It’s estimated that 25,000 fortifications ... The 100-foot-high ...

As the grassroots campaign gathered pace some of their opponents began acting like the Stasi in Cold War East Germany ... that they were acting illegally. Scotland’s politicians, elected ...

As part of her new remit, Sandison will work to promote Scotland’s academic institutions and research expertise and draw on her international connections to bridge universities with other global ...

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. “Now that Donald Trump is US President again, the strong, reliable guy in ...

evidence-based debate on whether Scotland should follow the example of countries like France, Germany, Spain and most recently Italy, who have rightly said no to the commodification of women’s ...

Reunification shattered that balance. East Germany’s economy collapsed, triggering mass emigration and decline. The West failed to adapt, clinging to old industries as the world changed and the ...

An East Renfrewshire business has seen its turnover double after accessing support and signposting to £10,000 of grant funding from Business Gateway. Founded by Saffron Grant in 2009, Setting Out for ...

the economy in East Germany shrank by 0.1% and in Germany as a whole by 0.2%. The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) expects stagnation for East Germany in 2025 and growth of 1.1% in 2026.