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"Women in Divided Germany" is the title of an exhibition 35 years after reunification. It sheds light on the realities of ...

Throughout the summer of 1989, the Communist regime found itself under enormous pressure because huge numbers of East Germans were slipping through to the West by avoiding East Germany's lethally ...

Gysi worked as a lawyer in the former East Germany before helping to reform the old communist party after the Berlin Wall fell. He was first elected to the Bundestag after reunification in 1990.