At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

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Thirty-one Octobers ago, Germany suddenly and irreversibly reunited after more than 40 years of division. It was sudden, because the Berlin Wall had fallen less than a year earlier and reunification ...

‘THE history of our Colonies in the world war has shown that the German Colonial Empire was no proper “empire” at all, but just a number of possessions without geographical and political connection or ...