Barbara Poenisch 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.

The contemporary artworks featured in the exhibition include German artist Verena Kyselka’s “Pigs Like Pigments” (2007), which incorporates printouts of the files the Stasi kept on her ...

In this video, we explore daily life in East Germany during the Cold War. From the state-controlled economy and strict surveillance of the Stasi to the culture, education, and everyday struggles of ...

She even learned German to be able to better approach people about the doc. “We started reaching out to Stasi officers, and it was clear that there was a skepticism for Stasi officers to engage ...

The court handed down a guilty verdict and a 10-year sentence to a former officer of East Germany’s dreaded secret police, in a case straight out of the Cold War.

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 ...

Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom, even by killing them.