In recent weeks, Germany has been taking a hard look at its Cold War history after it was revealed that a Stasi spy shot and killed student demonstrator Benno Ohnesorg in 1967. Now new details ...

Himself a former West German soldier who was kidnapped by the Stasi in 1974 and held in an East German political prison for nine years, he sees Checkpoint Charlie as a symbol not only of the four ...

According to a report from the Stasi, the East German secret police, that has recently come to light, on June 18, 1988, at precisely 2:52 p.m., several cars arrived at Checkpoint Charlie on the ...

An elderly former Stasi guard has been jailed for 10 years after he was found guilty of killing a Polish man as he attempted to flee to West Berlin during the Cold War. Martin Naumann, now 80 ...

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 ...

It was the most determined show of U.S. strength since the Berlin crisis began, but staged belatedly, over a narrow issue. If one U.S. bulldozer had been at work on Aug. 13 to stop East Germany ...

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say a former member of communist East Germany’s secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided ...

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.

A group of West German schoolgirls, who were returning from a school trip to East Berlin, say they saw a man in a raincoat and sunglasses shoot him. That man, say prosecutors, was the former Stasi ...

More than 600 of them died in the process, often shot dead by East German border guards. A few weeks after Martin N. shot Kukuczka, the East German state honored him for “rendering harmless” the ...

A group of West German schoolgirls, who were returning from a school trip to East Berlin, say they saw a man in a raincoat and sunglasses shoot him. That man, say prosecutors, was the former Stasi ...

Prosecutors say a former member of communist East Germany’s secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided Berlin in 1974 ...