Throughout the summer of 1989, the Communist regime found itself under enormous pressure because huge numbers of East Germans ... where the Stasi had their offices. In English and German.

Stasi officers “kept an iron grip on every aspect of life inside East Germany”, but tried to destroy their internal records when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, says the newspaper. But the files ...

On December 4, 1989, the artist Gabriele Stötzer and a group of women organized the occupation of the local Stasi building in Erfurt. Although the borders between East and West Germany were ...