Berlin
The former VEB Schultheiss-Brauerei Schönhauser Allee today houses everything except a brewery. Brewing beer had already come to an end in the GDR era.
Berlin
The Stasi prison Hohenschönhausen is hidden in an ordinary neighbourhood in Berlin. From 1951 onwards, the GDR regime interrogated and imprisoned thousands of political prisoners here.
Berlin
The banks of the Spree in Berlin's Oberschöneweide district were overrun at the end of the nineteenth century by workshops that mainly focused on the electronics industry.
Berlin
The Spreepark amusement park has been gathering dust since 2001. To avoid bankruptcy, the owner moved some attractions to Peru to start with a clean slate. In vain, as it now appears.
Berlin
In the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall cut the city in half over 43 kilometers. Another 112 kilometers of wall separated West Berlin from the communist part of the city.
Berlin
Plattenbau near Alexanderzplatz in Berlin? There must be a GDR history behind that. The prominent Haus der Statistik (House of Statistics) has been in disrepair since 2008.
Sachsen-Anhalt
During Germany's division, the Helmstedt-Marienborn border post was the most crucial crossing along the German internal border.
Sachsen-Anhalt
Until 1989, the five-hundred-meter-wide GDR border split the German Harz Mountains in half.
Berlin
Between 1974 and 1976, the GDR government built the lavishly decorated Palast der Republik, a showpiece project on Marx-Engels-Platz, which housed the East German Parliament, theater halls, several restaurants and a bowling hall.
Berlin
In Karlshorst, deep in the east of Berlin, the signing of the capitulation by Germany meant the end of the Second World War.
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