Hoyer has several important advantages that Steinbeck and Capa lacked. East Germany’s fearsome internal security apparatus is long gone, which means her surviving subjects are free to speak openly ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is once again joined by Katja Hoyer, research fellow at King’s College London, to discuss her new book, Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. They chat about the political ...

Katja Hoyer’s "Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany" presents a nuanced and thought-provoking history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Unlike the traditional Western perspective that ...

In the northern outskirts of Berlin near Bernau once lay one of the most secretive and exclusive places of the former East ...

FOR a long time it was fashionable to write of the impending catastrophe in East Germany, of chronic industrial stagnation, incipient economic collapse, even of famine. But, in fact, East German ...

At the border between Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt was the most secret location of the former East Germany during the time of the German division. A powerful bunker complex that was intended to serve as a ...

Contemporary works are casting a new light on sentimentality for Communism. By Evan Moffitt WHEN THE ARTIST Henrike Naumann first saw “The Flintstones” on TV, she thought it depicted what life was ...