The skies were dark and cloudy and the echoes of thunder could be heard in the distance. It was cold and somber this November day in 1990 as the Deutsche Bahn train in which I was traveling slowly ...

BERLIN, May 28 (UPI) -- Germany will have to rewrite part of its history: The man who in 1967 fired the shot that went on to change West Germany was a spy working for communist East Germany. Until ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film follows the personal investigation by Peter Keup, a Stasi victim-turned-historian, into family secrets. His search for ...

The Stasi Records Agency is a legacy of the peaceful revolution in the GDR. Now its name is disappearing, but its spirit is to live on elsewhere. This number is impressive enough, if not downright ...

Files at the Berlin Office of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Files (BStU). Photo: DPA Nearly 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell, Germany's parliament voted Thursday to transfer the vast secret ...

Stack up the files left behind by East Germany's feared secret police – the Stasi – and you could fill the road from Newry to Dublin. A quarter of a century after East Germany ceased to exist, the ...

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

I was naked, tied to a hard chair with handcuffs. Three or four burly fellows in uniform are standing around me, one of them behind me with a truncheon… ‘Sie sind ein Verräter! [You are a traitor!],’ ...

Forget 1984! You don't usually get a non-fiction look behind the curtain of the state security and secret police apparatus in ...