After World War II, the Soviet Union transformed their occupied zone in Germany into the German Democratic Republic. One of the many communist states in the Eastern Bloc, East Germany developed a ...

In Leipzig, a community of camping enthusiasts from the former East Germany gathers twice a year to honor shared memories and routines that have outlasted reunification. Around 150 families meet to ...

Three thousand miles from his New York City home, as the August dawn broke over the Austrian landscape, 24-year-old Army draftee Stephen Wechsler took off his shoes, waded into the Danube River, and ...