Stasi files show that 007 violated the GDR border four times at Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin. The whole thing ...

Tens of thousands of Germans continue to consult their files from the Stasi, the former East German state security agency, as the country prepares to mark 35 years since reunification on Friday. The ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Secret files of Communist East Germany's Stasi security police were sent to a film set for use as props, triggering an investigation into how such sensitive documents were obtained.

When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, frantically tore up millions of files gathered during decades of spying on its own citizens. More than two decades ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - For decades, Joachim Fritsch struggled to understand why he was being denied access to higher education and passed over for job promotions again and again. Then he got hold of a 400 ...

BERLIN, March 8 -- Wiretap recordings of Helmut Kohl collected by the East German secret police were sealed by a court today, handing the former chancellor a victory with broad implications for public ...

Barbara Poenisch spends most of her days at work doing puzzles -- piecing together a mountain of documents torn up by the hated East German Stasi secret police. The former bookbinder is one in a team ...

Video. Stasi files show that 007 violated the GDR border four times at Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin. The whole thing ...

People search through records kept by the Stasi after storming the secret police office in Erfurt on December 4th 1989. Photo: DPA 25 years ago today, just weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, ...