A young man’s death at the hands of the Stasi is at the core of a story of the generation raised behind the Iron Curtain ...

An 80-year old ex-officer of East Germany's Stasi secret police force was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday by the Berlin Regional Court for the murder of Czeslaw Kukuczka in 1974. The 10-year se ...

An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, went on trial Thursday over the killing of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided Berlin 50 years ago.

A new dispute has erupted in Germany over the files kept by the Stasi, the intelligence service of former-communist East Germany. Hundreds of files on individual East Germans have been released ...

The Stasi, the secret police under East German communism during the Cold War, were skilled at exploiting the vulnerability of people whose fathers had abandoned them.

It is the Stasi, the feared German secret police that terrorized East Germany from 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Manfred Lehmann avoids Berlin landmarks such as the Brandenburg Gate where hawkers selling old East German medals or students posing in guard uniforms for tourists are a painful spectacle to the ...

The Hohenthurm train collision revealed the toxic atmosphere of paranoia that defined East Germany in the Cold War era. Safety concerns were systematically ignored, accountability was absent, and the ...

The ostalgia industry leaves observers like Klaus Schroeder speechless. “People really seem to think the G.D.R. was a big joke, which results in such crudities as a Stasi pub,” says the ...

An ex-Stasi officer on Monday received 10 years in prison for murder in connection with a fatal 1974 shooting at a border crossing between the former East and West Germany in Berlin. The 80-year ...