7 Best Places to Relive East Berlin's Communist Past Have a case of Ostalgie ... And you can walk through a socialist-era tower block apartment to see what home life was like during the period.

Berlin has just said “yes” to Communist-era blocks and “no” to more new skyscrapers. On Monday, the city announced that it was listing some key Communist-era structures in Alexanderplatz ...

BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- The oppressive East German regime is but a memory, but the old, often unappreciated buildings that sprouted during its heyday are enjoying a renaissance in the German capital.

The owners of the House of Electro-Technology in Berlin say it’s outdated and should be replaced, but Christine Edmaier wants to save it. Communist eyesores spur debate in Berlin ...

Auge Lorenz, 38, an animator who grew up in East Berlin, shook his head in wonder: "I live in an altbau," he said, meaning a prewar building, "and I'm going to stay there. I had friends who lived ...

During my visits to East Berlin and the Soviet zone prior to August 13, 1961, state officials repeatedly told me that so long as people could go to West Berlin, the Communist state would never ...

My choices for the dozen most intriguing communism-related sites in Berlin: DDR Museum: A small new museum on the banks of the Spree River, the museum plays to the “Ostalgia” of Germans… ...

8-1-1963, DEC 6 1969, DEC 10 1969A sentry fixes his binoculars on activity across the Berlin WallThe wall of iron, wire and stone went up in that heated summer of 1961.Credit: Flip Schulkearchiveblog ...

BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- The oppressive East German regime is but a memory, but the old, often unappreciated buildings that sprouted during its heyday are enjoying a renaissance in the German capital.