Life expectancy in Germany rebounded in 2023 for both men and women, after declining during the coronavirus pandemic, according to figures from Germany's Federal Statistical Office released on ...
“We don’t have that!” was once a typical reply in shops throughout East Germany. Today, there are only recordings of that classical line to be experienced at the newly reopened GDR Museum in Berlin.
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.