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

Getty Images Bags of torn up documents from the Stasi files are kept and could one day be pieced together Since then, thousands of former East German residents have been able to read what the ...

BERLIN — An 80-year-old former officer with East Germany’s Stasi secret police was found guilty Monday of killing a 38-year-old Polish man at a border crossing in East Berlin 50 years ago.

An 80-year-old former officer of East Germany's secret police, Stasi, has been sentenced to ... in an operational group of the former East German Ministry for State Security, was tasked with ...

The ruling was the first-ever conviction against a former employee of the Stasi, communist East Germany's secret police, for ...

A court in Berlin has sentenced a former member of East Germany's notorious secret police to 10 years imprisonment for murder. The Berlin Regional Court on Monday sentenced a former East German ...

An 80-year-old former officer of East Germany's secret police, Stasi, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison ... who was a first lieutenant in an operational group of the former East German Ministry ...