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

Angela Merkel outsmarted East Germany’s state security police – the so-called Stasi – when two officers tried to recruit her ...

referring to the East German secret police, also known as the Stasi. "They call out: 'hands up, switch the machine off, stand against the wall!'" The men search and photograph the room ...

Tracing a decade of East German football, survivors of the Cold War tell a story of betrayal, murder, and manipulation in a ...

Germany's parliament has voted to transfer the secret files of the Stasi, the intelligence service in communist East Germany, to the national archives despite concerns from researchers.

In 1987, a group of East Berlin teens faced down the East German secret police, or Stasi, to print underground zines exposing ...

Opposition to the state was stamped out by East Germany’s feared Stasi secret police, which spied on almost every aspect of people’s daily lives. In a statement this week, IKEA Germany ...

Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of ...

On Sunday, Russian protest punk band Pussy Riot was to perform outside the former headquarters of the Stasi, former East ...

Evelyn Zupke, federal commissioner for victims of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) dictatorship — which founded and ruled the former communist East Germany — said Ikea's commitment ...

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