BERLIN (Reuters) - 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 ...

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-old ...

Ralf Drescher recalls joining a demonstration and storming the headquarters of the East German secret police 35 years ago. Jörg Carstensen/dpa A hand-written flyer changed everything for photographer ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former members of the Stasi come clean about their work for East Germany's infamous secret police in a new book that offers some of the most detailed personal accounts of its ...

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 ...

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. For those who haven ...

BERLIN (AP) — It appears that even the dreaded East German Stasi got caught up in Michael Jackson mania in the late 1980s.According to a document obtained by the AP last week from the archives of the ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – A German filmmaker’s efforts to extract records from the CIA on notorious East German Stasi head Erich Mielke came to a close Friday after a federal judge sided with the ...

Memorable movie villains are hard to dream up in these politically correct times. Hollywood is swiftly running out of archetypes whose real-life constituents won't come running after the studios for ...