Former dissidents, released secret service files and a zine in an East Berlin basement reveal a little-known chapter of Cold ...

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

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

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

A Labour MP has labelled the police investigation into Allison Pearson over a social media post as “Stasi-like”.Graham ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...