For one scene showing Engelhardt returning to the Stasi headquarters and his office, the filmmakers needed special approval since former Stasi executives are usually not allowed there. So how much ...

The original rooms of the Stasi headquarters have been preserved and are still accessible to visitors. No one who walks through the large detention building remains untouched. Footsteps echo ...

On 4 December 1989, crowds stormed the Stasi headquarters in Leipzig. Irmtraut Hollitzer, who now runs the Stasi Museum, in the former Stasi headquarters building, was present on that dramatic night.

In the spooky Stasi HQ in Leipzig, now a rather sinister museum, Tobias Hollitzer, the museum’s director, is telling me about his participation in the Peaceful Revolution which led to the fall ...

The release of a series of top-secret Stasi tapes is shedding light on the inner workings of the once-feared German police agency. The 14 highly classified recordings were once held by the agency ...

Today, regular people make their homes here. But until 1989, this block of buildings housed the headquarters of the GDR's State Security.