SXSW: Historian Peter Keup unearths the traumas of his past to reveal the nefarious actions of the secret police and the surveillance state it imposed during its 40 years in power.

How did the East German state keep its people under surveillance? We get a peek behind the scenes at the former Stasi headquarters in Berlin. Trump raises Canadian steel, aluminum tariffs to 50% ...

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 ...

During this time, he had many interactions with East German officials from the secret police, called the Stasi. While the KGB documents about Putin were destroyed, or taken back to the USSR, many of ...

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 ...

'The Spies Among Us,' a surveillance state documentary by Gabriel Silverman and Jamie Silverman, shows an East Germany man talk to ex-Stasi officers. SXSW: 'The Spies Among Us' Doc on Stasi ...

Gregor Gysi will kick off the first session of the new Bundestag when it convenes on Tuesday, March 25. The 77-year-old ...

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 ...

From 1950 to 1990, East Germany and its people were controlled by the Ministry of State Security, or Stasi, which resembled how the KGB operated in the USSR in that its goal was less about ...