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In Sign of Growing Power, Neo-Nazis Dominate Small German Town

JAMEL, Germany -- This is a town taken over by neo-Nazis. Wooden signposts by the main road point to Vienna, Paris, and Braunau am Inn - the birthplace of Adolf Hitler. A far-right leader runs his demolition company from home, its logo featuring a man smashing a Star of David with a sledgehammer. Every few months,...

Germany Marks 20 Years of Reunification

BERLIN (Oct. 3) -- Germany's president celebrated the country's new-found national pride but also stressed that more needs to be done to integrate Muslim and other immigrants as he marked the 20th anniversary of reunification on Sunday. Germany's post-World War II division ended with reunification on Oct. 3, 1990 - less...

20 Years On, a Street Recalls the Berlin Wall

BERLIN (Nov. 6) -- Astrid Kaiser still trembles when she remembers being frisked as a child by Red Army guards at the fortified border on Bernauer Strasse, where communist East Germany first began erecting the Berlin Wall on Aug. 13, 1961. "They even searched my doll carriage," says Kaiser, now 58. "I still feel uneasy...

Background on East Germany

The German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR), informally known as East Germany (German: Ostdeutschland), was a socialist state established by the USSR in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city.

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