In East Germany after World War II, some 700,000 Social Democrats, influenced by feelings of comradeship for the Communists during the bitter struggle against Hitler, accepted the Communist ...

Long the Reddest, deadest corpse in the Soviet satellite closet, East Germany showed faint stirrings of unnatural life last week. East German guards were busy knocking a 5-by-9-ft. hole in the Wall as ...

Otto Emil Franz Grotewohl (11 March 1894 – 21 September 1964) was a German politician who served as the first prime minister of the German Democratic Republic (GDR/East Germany) from 1949 to 1964.

BERLIN, April 15--Communist East Germany dimmed hopes today for East-West agreement at next month's foreign ministers conference. Premier Otto Grotewohl, in a belligerent speech before East Germany's ...

Marshal Bulganin, Soviet Prime Minister, and Herr Otto Grotewohl, East German Premier, today signed a treaty restoring sovereignty to East Germany. Marshal Bulganin, Soviet Prime Minister, and Herr ...

It is almost 17 years since the fall of communist East Germany, but still the regime is commemorated in thousands of street names all over the region. Those who fought the dictatorship, on the other ...

Starting in 1987, Robert Conrad risked his freedom to secretly photograph Adolf Hitler's decaying bunker in what was then East Berlin. Disguised as a construction worker, he snuck inside some 30 times ...