whose secret police infiltrated the homes of suspected regime opponents in order to tap their phones. The practice stopped with the end of the East German dictatorship (GDR) and German ...

A former Stasi officer will go on trial in Germany on Thursday for shooting a Polish man attempting to flee to West Berlin almost 50 years ago, a case that could impact how killings committed in ...

It is the Stasi, the feared German secret police that terrorized East Germany from 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall. In a compelling new book, A State of Secrecy: Stasi Informers and the Cult ...

Muehe best known for role in Oscar-winning drama "The Lives of Others" Actor won international acclaim for playing East German secret police agent Muehe was veteran of German theatre, had roles in ...

It has been over a decade since Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck wrote and directed Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), a not altogether historically accurate yet nonetheless interesting film ...

Jenson Button's team fear they were the victims of industrial espionage carried out by former members of the East German secret police. Renault, the French car giant which has bought Button's ...

It's a significant fall from grace for BFC Dynamo, ten-time Oberliga champions, three-time East German cup winners and pride of Erich Mielke, the head of the secret police, or Stasi. And yet ...

Heidemann travels to the East, where he meets a pair of East German secret police officers.