Barbara Pönisch spends most of her days at work doing puzzles -- piecing together a mountain of documents torn up by the hated East German Stasi secret police.
As the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, David Courbet hears the story of a tunnel digger who risked his life for others and was saved by an unlikely 'hero'.
Nearly 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell,
Germany's parliament voted Thursday to transfer the vast secret police files
of the former East German communist regime into the Federal Archives --
despite concerns voiced by some historians and ex-dissidents.
Deputies will vote on whether to integrate the Stasi records and its 111
kilometres of files collected by the hated secret police into the
Federal Archives.
The little known tragedy of the 1969 rumoured Rolling Stones concert captures both the East Germans’ determination for freedom of expression, and the horrors of life under the Stasi.
More than 30 years after the Lockerbie bombing, German prosecutors confirmed Thursday they have interviewed ex-East German secret police agents, at the request of Scottish investigators, over the attack.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday inaugurated
the new, fortress-like Berlin headquarters of Germany's scandal-plagued BND foreign intelligence service.
Exactly 69 years ago, on February 8th, 1950, the fledgling German Democratic Republic(GDR) officially debuted its security service, dedicated to monitoring and preventing outside influences - particularly from the West.
The mayor of Berlin announced on Saturday that a senior regional official had been fired for having worked in the Stasi, the former East Germany's dreaded secret police.
Berlin has opened a shelter at the former headquarters of communist East Germany's feared Stasi secret police to help house a record influx of asylum seekers, weekend media reports said.
While "Deutschland 83" gets its permiere as a mini-series at Berlinale on Tuesday and Wednesday, it also makes entertainment history as being the first German series to be broadcast for American audiences.
25 years ago today, just weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, hundreds of ordinary people stormed into Stasi offices in Erfurt to stop the repressive secret police destroying the records it kept on East Germans.
Berlin police are investigating whether an artist who projected “United Stasi of America" onto the US embassy in the German capital earlier this week could be charged with a criminal offence.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected comparisons between US government spying and the secret police of the former East Germany. In an interview she defends the German secret service, as well as the practice of intercepting data.
Former victims of East Germany's spying apparatus and a state informant recount their dark memories in a play that, more than two decades after the collapse of the communist regime, aims to exorcise the ghosts of the feared Stasi secret police. AFP's Eloi Rouyer reports.
Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU) called on Tuesday for symbols associated with the totalitarian socialist regime of former East Germany to be banned, in the same way that it is illegal to display Nazi memorabilia.
On the 30th anniversary of his death, the mysterious demise of East German football star Lutz Eigendorf still prompts the question – was he murdered by the former communist regime's secret police?
Alledged former member of East Germany's Stasi security service and old KGB friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Matthias Warnig, was on Monday appointed chairman of the world's largest aluminium producer, Rusal.
Germany launched a project on Friday to shed light on the identities of the hundreds of people killed along its internal Cold War border while trying to flee the communist East.
