East v West - Germany's drug-fuelled Cold War for medals "These are all harmless drugs. All athletes take them. It's really nothing special." That was what German heptathlete Birgit Dressel ...

The German capital, Berlin ... The event touched off an especially tense period of the Cold War. Three weeks after the crash, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov received an alert at the command ...

Read more: This German city is described as ‘Florence ... Two decades after that – in a show of thunderous Cold War hubris – the quixotic government decided what the locals needed was ...

Seven years later in 1952, the East German government (GDR) decided to change Chemnitz’s name to Karl-Marx-Stadt (Karl-Marx-City), despite Marx himself having never stepped foot in the city. Two ...