BERLINBERLIN — An agency set up to oversee the voluminous files of communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, has wrapped up its work after nearly three decades. The files on Thursday became ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: East Berlin border guards stand atop the Berlin Wall at the Brandeburg Gate faced by thousands of West Berliners on ...

A worker reassembles torn or shredded documents in the former headquarters of the Stasi in Berlin in 2019. (John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images) On average, it takes about nine hours to complete a ...

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 ...

An 80-year-old former Stasi officer has gone on trial for the killing of a Polish man at a Berlin border crossing 50 years ago. The suspect, unnamed due to German privacy rules, faces murder charges ...

Germany has for the first time released records on former West German politicians compiled by communist East Germany’s once-dreaded secret police, the state-held Stasi archives said on Wednesday. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Checkpoint Charlie - one of the most dangerous places in the Cold War - was the film set for the 1982 James Bond film Octopussy ...

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say a former member of communist East Germany’s secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided Berlin in ...

Stasi files show that 007 violated the GDR border four times at Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin. The whole thing happened during filming for 'Octopussy.' A dangerous scandal in the middle of the ...