A Stasi photo taken during a raid of activists in East Berlin printing the Umweltblätter environmental magazine (Credit: The Stasi Records Archive) Former dissidents, released secret service ...

Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom ...

An 80-year-old ex-Stasi officer was sentenced to 10 years for a Cold War-era murder on Monday. Martin Naumann shot ...

The sentence, almost 35 years after the Berlin Wall fell, marks the first time a former Stasi officer has been convicted of a homicide committed on duty, according to historians. The Berlin court ...

How come presidential candidates and paid TV news experts who hold sway over millions of people aren’t held to the same code of honor as cadets at U.S. military academies? At least! That code ...

Let me be the first to congratulate you on your proposed ban on carriage horses. I understand where you’re coming from because I also love animals. In fact, I love them so much we even took our ...

But new research shows how concrete, barbed wire and a huge effort by the secret police, the Stasi, failed to silence the seductive beat of rock and roll and punk. The rise of Beatlemania in the ...

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 ...

In 1960 Saverio Stasi left Naples, Italy, seeking a better life in the United States. He settled in Westbury, NY and started a landscaping company. A brick mason by trade, he soon added brickwork ...

No violence!" For the regime, it was the beginning of the end. Even after the fall of the Wall, the lurking power of the Stasi, the secret police, remained. East Germans continued to demonstrate ...

The Ministry for State Security, (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (, literally State Security), was the official state security service of East Germany.

An elderly former Stasi guard has been jailed for 10 years after he was found guilty of killing a Polish man as he attempted to flee to West Berlin during the Cold War. Martin Naumann, now 80 ...