We Americans complain of Big Brother’s unblinking eye in the post-Patriot Act, corporate e-mail era—as well we should. But, as The Lives of Others makes plain, things could be worse. Set in East ...

At least twice, Germany has had among the most influential and important mainstream film industries in the world. First, ...

WEIMAR, Thuringia, Germany — Walking through Weimar, Germany, the legacy of the Holocaust seems inescapable. Stolpersteine — German for “stumbling blocks” — are placed outside the homes of people ...

“We don’t have that!” was once a typical reply in shops throughout East Germany. Today, there are only recordings of that classical line to be experienced at the newly reopened GDR Museum in Berlin.

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On January 27, Germany commemorates the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. Today, the country's memory culture has become one ...

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the early euphoria of reunification, enduring economic inequalities ...