A 24-year-old East German border guard fled across the border with Bavaria on Friday, border police said.
Axel Springer, the conservative and fiercely anti-Communist publisher who built West Germany's biggest newspaper empire after World War II, died in West Berlin on Sunday at the age of 73, a spokesman for his publishing house said.
More than an art show of graphic clout and emotional fervor, "Prints by Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: A Centenary Celebration" is a beginning.
Two armed East German soldiers in full uniform slipped over the heavily guarded frontier into West
An East Berlin court on Wednesday convicted a West German mayor of organizing a "subversive action
West Germany's armed forces chief was quoted Wednesday as defending the practice of giving most troops the weekend off, saying he could rule out the possibility of a surprise Soviet attack on a Saturday or Sunday.
Reagan's attempt to reclassify German soldiers buried at Bitburg as "victims of Nazism" is a fiction that will not wash!
In response to today's editorial (April 23), and a previous one, regarding President Reagan's visit to Bitburg, I feel compelled to speak out.
West German President Richard von Weizsaecker has accepted an invitation to visit Israel this year, his office said Thursday.
About 100 teen-agers, many of them punk rockers, ran wild through part of Munich early Sunday after a rock bar closed, setting small fires, smashing store windows and battering parked cars, authorities said.
East German swimmer Sylvia Gerasch set a world record of 2 minutes 28.20 seconds in the 200-meter
West German writer Hubert Fichte died Saturday after a tumor operation, his wife Leonore said.
I would like to compliment you on the many European authors appearing recently in your Editorial Pages.
West German sources confirmed Monday that a major spy exchange will take place soon involving imprisoned Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky.
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl conferred Wednesday with Guenter Mittag, economics expert of the East German Communist Party's ruling Politburo.
A 45-year-old man from Communist East Germany swam the Elbe River to escape to West Germany, border police said Wednesday.
A theater in Frankfurt will not perform a controversial play by the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder that has been denounced by Jewish and other groups as anti-Semitic.
Soviet leader Mikhail S.
East Germany and West Germany appeared intent on avoiding a rupture in relations over Bonn's spy scandal.
The city is like an immense mastodon flywheel dressed in a hairy woolen sweater.