An 80-year old ex-officer of East Germany’s Stasi secret police force was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday by the Berlin Regional Court for the murder of Czeslaw Kukuczka in 1974. The 10-year ...

Because East Germany was a Soviet satellite state and not a full member of the Soviet Union, official documents remained in the country after th ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alice Weidel, Chairwoman of the AfD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, speaks ahead of the meeting of the AfD ...

A former East German secret police officer was sentenced to 10 years in jail in a landmark ruling on Monday for shooting dead a Polish man trying to flee to the West 50 years ago. The sentence, almost ...

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 ...

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. The former bookbinder is one in a team ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Two years after the release of Oscar-winning movie "The Lives of Others", communist East Germany and its Stasi secret police are back in the spotlight in a new film that examines ...

BERLIN — It was a brutal act from another time, almost another world, when the Cold War was hot and Germany was divided: An officer of East Germany’s feared secret police shot and killed a man trying ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -A former officer for Communist East Germany's Stasi secret police was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for the fatal shooting of a Polish firefighter at a border crossing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: East Berlin border guards stand atop the Berlin Wall at the Brandeburg Gate faced by thousands of West Berliners on ...