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 ...

For years, the former member of communist East Germany's secret police had been in peaceful retirement in a detached house on the outskirts of Leipzig, tending to his garden. Now, aged 80, the ex ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...