BERLIN (Reuters) -Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany’s hard ...

At last the East German Communist regime of Walter Ulbricht seemed to be making a determined attempt to stop its refugees running out to the West. But they still keep coming. Last week People’s ...

The name may have gone, but the huge bust of the co-author of The Communist Manifesto (who never actually visited Chemnitz) remains, one of a few examples I encounter of East German attempts to ...

FILE - Hans Modrow listens during the last party convention of the PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism), Friday, June 15, 2007 in Berlin. Modrow, who served as East Germany’s last communist ...

a reform-minded communist, took over East Germany shortly after the Berlin Wall fell and later invited opposition forces into the government, but could not slow the gathering momentum for German ...

a reform-minded communist, took over East Germany shortly after the Berlin Wall fell and later invited opposition forces into the government, but could not slow the gathering momentum for German ...