Tens of thousands of Germans continue to consult their files from the Stasi, the former East German state security agency, as ...

Ralf Drescher recalls joining a demonstration and storming the headquarters of the East German secret police 35 years ago. Jörg Carstensen/dpa A hand-written flyer changed everything for photographer ...

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. There are still 400 to 600 million ...

The Stasi had sweeping access to public and private records: "personnel and health files, tax assessments, insurance policies and bank statements,” per a label. It had employees in post offices to ...

All but a few stretches of the Berlin Wall were torn down in the first heady months after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic (G.D.R.). Yet some east Germans still cling to memories of the ...

Oct. 14 (UPI) --A former officer of the East German secret police was found guilty by a Berlin court of murder in the 1978 shooting death of a Polish citizen attempting to cross into West Berlin. In a ...