BERLIN (AP) — Like many other young women living in communist East Germany, Solveig Leo thought nothing about juggling work and motherhood. The mother of two was able to preside over a large ...

From 1973 to 1989, the swimming world watched women swimmers from the German Democratic Republic rise from mediocrity (at best) to a fire-breathing presence that left the competition in ashes. Such ...

Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies competed against steroid-juiced East German women at the height of the Cold War doping era, but she says the current influx of biological males in women’s sports is even ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

Depopulated towns in Germany’s ex-communist east have come up with a novel scheme to bring back life: offering people several weeks of super-cheap housing to give would-be residents a taste of the ...

In all the lands where the hammer and sickle seek to blot out the cross, a pitiless struggle goes on to render unto the Red Caesars the things that are God’s. Last week the spiritual combat zone was ...

THE LATE summer sun is beating down on a merry crowd assembled in Neustadt an der Orla, a small town in the east German state of Thuringia. As children slurp ice cream and Thuringian Bratwürste warm ...