East Germany's secret police headquarters was stormed, after civil disobedience actions for months beforehand paved the way.

A court in Berlin sentenced an 80-year-old former officer of the STASI, East Germany's secret police, to ten years in prison ...

Germany's parliament has voted to transfer the secret files of the Stasi, the intelligence service in communist East Germany, to the national archives despite concerns from researchers.

BStU Stasi photographs of crowds in East Berlin gathering to hear the Rolling Stones In East Germany the DJ's notion quickly became rumour and then widely believed fact. Thousands of young East ...

Stasi officers “kept an iron grip on every aspect of life inside East Germany”, but tried to destroy their internal records when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, says the newspaper. But the files ...

Meanwhile at home in East Germany, for those protesters who were ... Even after the fall of the Wall, the lurking power of the Stasi, the secret police, remained. East Germans continued to ...

It's a significant fall from grace for BFC Dynamo, ten-time Oberliga champions, three-time East German cup winners and pride of Erich Mielke, the head of the secret police, or Stasi. And yet ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, records of East Germany's secret police are uncovered. The Stasi archives reveal surveillance methods and victims through interviews, documents and reconstructed ...

The Stasi Museum in East Berlin is amazing, not least because it's the actual former headquarters of East Germany's secret police. You can go into the actual offices where files on millions of ...

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