She cites a 2019 study among Germans her age that suggests a fifth of people from the ex-GDR see themselves as East German, rather than German. There is no such trend in western Germany.

The Berlin Wall and no man's land in 1984 - the Cold War at its most intense A new German study has put at 327 the number of people killed at the East German border during the Cold War.

"We are one people! No violence!" For the regime, it was the beginning of the end. Even after the fall of the Wall, the lurking power of the Stasi, the secret police, remained. East Germans ...