Take your seats, please: Germany's parliament chamber is rearranged to reflect voters' verdict
Workers on Wednesday rearranged the blue seats in the chamber of the lower house of parliament, or Bundestag. After each ...
A look back: East Germany's first freely elected parliament
Germany's reunification.On March 18, 1990, the Christian Democratic Union emerged as the strongest party after the election ...
Thirty-five years ago East Germany's first freely elected parliament began work
East German lawmakers became the first parliamentarians to have come to power in free and fair elections.On March 18, 1990, ...
EL PAÍS English16 天
How the historical memory of Nazism (partly) explains the success of the far right in ...
The former GDR, a stronghold of the AfD, and Vienna, where the extremists won in September, avoided taking responsibility for Nazi crimes as West Germany did ...
France 2423 天
How Germany’s enduring East-West divide is pushing voters to the fringes
Under the leadership of West Germany’s Christian Democrat chancellor Helmut Kohl, the FRG soon expanded to include the territories of the GDR, invoking an article of its constitution that ...
Morning Star23 天
The roots of neofascism in East Germany
ON November 9, 1989, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) relinquished its border security to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). While the world watched images of euphoric citizens pouring into ...