The stark east-west divide in national vote share from Germany’s national election on Sunday has been revealed in new data. News agency Reuters has created a map using result figures that show a ...

You only have to look at a map of Germany to see where much of ... Over the second half of the 20th century, East and West Germany reflected the Cold War ideologies of Russia and the US.

Instead, Germany’s first democratic society only emerged for a short time – between the years 1919 and 1933. In other words, East-Germans who were living under a Stalinist regime between 1945 ...

Under the leadership of West Germany’s Christian Democrat ... “If you look up the electoral maps of the general election, it’s as if the old East Germany still exists,” he said.

Germany’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) won Sunday’s election as voters rebuked the nation’s left-leaning government for its handling of the economy and immigration. Voters gave ...

Germany’s historical Drang nach Osten— push toward the East —has more often than not involved expansion and conquest at its neighbors’ expense. Now West Germany is looking eastward again ...

A West German magazine has compared East Germany’s latter-day progress to the West German level of 1949 (“Eat your fill and dress modestly”). This probably gives them now the highest living ...