An 80-year-old ex-Stasi officer was sentenced to 10 years for a Cold War-era murder on Monday. Martin Naumann shot 38-year-old Polish citizen Czesław Kukuczka at a border crossing in Berlin, 50 ...

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 ...

A Stasi photo taken during a raid of activists in East Berlin printing the Umweltblätter environmental magazine (Credit: The Stasi Records Archive) Former dissidents, released secret service ...

50 years later, German Stasi agent is convicted of murder, gets 10 years. ... At least 140 people were killed trying to escape over the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1989, ...

Now, nearly 35 years after the Wall fell, with old divisions cropping up once again in Germany and the wider world, the story ...

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 ...

At least 140 people were killed at the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1989. Few people have been held responsible for those deaths and generally face manslaughter charges, if any.

In November 1989, when the wall fell, the Stasi had an estimated 91,000 employees and 180,000 part-time spies, using coercion and violence to keep the communists in power for four decades.

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 ...