After winning a state election this past weekend, the German far right is closer to power than it has been in decades.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Big Ideas: What Is History? After moments of great upheaval, scars can last for generations. By Jenny Erpenbeck Jenny Erpenbeck is a writer. This personal reflection is part of a series called The ...

QUEDLINBURG, Germany — Germany’s far right is betting that an unabashed embrace of nostalgia for life behind the Iron Curtain will help propel their rise to power in the country’s East. This is why on ...

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 ...

The aftermath of World War II saw Germany split in two, and their respective automotive industries couldn’t be more different. The end of World War II gave way to a fractured Germany, with one half ...