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 ...

East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, were poised to arrest Roger Moore when he was filming James Bond movie Octopussy in Berlin. Secret documents just released show that the Stasi were ...

But records kept by East Germany's notorious secret police, known as the Stasi, ... the director of the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie museum, ...

Berlin's city council wants to get rid of a memorial at the site of Checkpoint Charlie, a security gate on the Berlin Wall. Hundreds of black crosses represent those killed trying to escape East ...

Sinister Stasi museum kills kitschy East German image. ... A large cold war museum is planned for the site of the Check Point Charlie roadblock between the old East and West Germany.

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 ...

Despite German films like the award-winning The Lives of Others, detailing the iniquities of East Germany's Stasi secret police, a survey published last month showed that 41 per cent of today's ...

BERLIN — It appears that even the dreaded East German Stasi got caught up in Michael Jackson mania in the late 1980s. According to a document obtained by the AP last week from the archives of ...

No Relief Like Passing Checkpoint Charlie. Share. Resize. Advertisement. ... It was 1961 and I was on a Fulbright grant to study East German Law at the Freie Universität in West Berlin.