A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and ...
The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.
East Germany's centrally planned economy had far lower living standards, stagnant productivity and poor consumer choice compared to the more advanced, capitalist West Germany. The East German ...