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 ...

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 ...

On the morning of his last day, in 1974, Mr. Kukuczka, entered the Polish Embassy in East Berlin, holding a bag that, according to photos shown in court 50 years later, held some wires and a crude ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -A former officer for Communist East Germany's Stasi secret police was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for the fatal shooting of a Polish firefighter at a border ...

Former Stasi official sentenced to 10 years for 1974 Berlin border murder. Czeslaw Kukuczka was shot in the back as he tried to flee from East Germany via the Berlin Wall on March 29, 1974.

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 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 Ex-Stasi officer jailed over 1974 ...

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East Berlin, late November 1987, around midnight. In the basement of an old tenement building, 14-year-old Tim Eisenlohr is stapling pages coming off a printer smuggled in from the West.

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.

On the morning of his last day, in 1974, Kukuczka, entered the Polish Embassy in East Berlin, holding a bag that, according to photos shown in court 50 years later, held some wires and a crude ...

BERLIN, Oct 14 (Reuters) - A former officer for Communist East Germany's Stasi secret police was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for the fatal shooting of a Polish firefighter at a ...