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.

On December 4, 1989, the artist Gabriele Stötzer and a group of women organized the occupation of the local Stasi building in Erfurt. Although the borders between East and West Germany were already ...

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 ...

Sure, the Bundesrepublik has its problems, but in a united Germany, East Germans can now do what they want, and for him this ...

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 ...

Vladimir Putin was 33 when he received this Stasi ID card A Stasi ID pass used by Vladimir Putin when he was a Soviet spy in former East Germany has been found in the Stasi secret police archive ...

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 ...

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On December 4, 1989, the artist Gabriele Stötzer and a group of women organized the occupation of the local Stasi building in Erfurt. Although the borders between East and West Germany were ...