In “Beyond the Wall”, a new history of life in East Germany, the Anglo-German academic Katja Hoyer has done just that. In the process, she inadvertently highlights the distinctly East German character ...

In 1948, John Steinbeck and photographer Robert Capa embarked on a carefully choreographed tour of the Soviet Union. The resulting book, A Russian Journal, was meant to humanize the Soviet people to ...

Crafting an expansive and generous history of East Germany, Hoyer brings long-standing academic scholarship to a broader audience, explaining how the GDR evolved over its 40-year existence, the ...

East Germany was not a country; it was a regime. A new book glosses over this reality. Public memory keeps getting shorter. Seven decades had to elapse before readers were willing suspend disbelief ...

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 ...

Historian and journalist Hoyer (Blood and Iron) captivates with this compassionate narrative of a lost nation. The German Democratic Republic was founded on October 7, 1949, and “vanished literally ...

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 ...

This documentary on the history of East Germany is told from the point of view of its people, using authentic historical footage and documents. It covers cultural, economic, and political developments ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

From 1976 through 1990, the building in East Berlin served as a symbol of the communist state's power. The "People's Palace" was controversially destroyed — and yet remains present.