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

A Stasi photo taken during a raid of activists in East Berlin printing the Umweltblätter environmental magazine (Credit: The Stasi Records Archive) Former dissidents, released secret service ...

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

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. The Berlin court ...

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

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

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

The Ministry for State Security, (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (, literally State Security), was the official state security service of East Germany.

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 ...