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11 days ago

‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy ⊕⊕

In Fritzi’s Footsteps tells story of a girl growing up in Leipzig who witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall

The creators of a children’s television series about life in communist East Germany have sai…

72 days ago

The economy's moribund. Socialism rules. Police come knocking if you say or think the wrong thing. Now, in an authoritarian new plan that'll make Britain even more like East Germany, citizens will be forced to carry ID cards

Keir Starmer faced a furious backlash on Thursday over 'dystopian' plans to force millions of adults to sign up for a digital ID card.

74 days ago

83 days ago

‘We were being watched by the KGB’: how Scorpions made Wind of Change

‘A guy from our record company told me to take out the whistling. I said no way. When the song went through the roof, he came to me, bent over and said, “Kick my ass!”’

Being a West German band made p…

3 months ago

If the Greens in Germany move towards the centre, they can become a real force again | Katja Hoyer

Four years ago, the party was the most popular in the country – but old rifts have fractured it. Now the time is ripe for a reset

The German Green party, Die Grünen, was once the envy of its sister mo…

5 months ago

The game the cold war scrapped finally set for kick-off 65 years later

Originally scheduled for the 1960-61 European Cup, political tension meant Northern Irish side Glenavon FC could not host German outfit Erzgebirge Aue – until now

It has taken 65 years, the end of the…

8 months ago

Cold war chronicler: Thomas Billhardt’s East Germany – in pictures

The photojournalist, who died in January, captured daily life in East Germany as well as Castro and Gorbachev’s visits, the fall of the Berlin Wall and life in Vietnam during the war

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