How did the East German state keep its people under surveillance? We get a peek behind the scenes at the former Stasi ...

The GAA does not, and cannot, exist in an idealistic bubble, just as the GDR was not sealed off from the outside world by the ...

Relations with Putin’s nation become key election issue as pro-Russia AfD and Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance make progress in polls ...

The use of secret arrests by ICE -- echoing tactics used by authoritarian governments -- undermines the principles of ...

How much control is necessary for a society to function and how can the example of the Stasi help us understand today’s situation with policing, surveillance and big data? The Ministry for State ...

From 'Stasi club' to 'Nazi club' "Even prior to reunification ... could even exist in an anti-fascist socialist state like the GDR." Nowadays, the club's remaining supporter base is small ...

Meanwhile at home in East Germany, for those protesters who were ... Even after the fall of the Wall, the lurking power of the Stasi, the secret police, remained. East Germans continued to ...

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 ...

A six-episode miniseries that all but dares the viewer not to binge-watch, The Same Sky is inspired by the infamous Operation Romeo hatched by GDR spymaster Markus Wolf. In 1974 East Berlin, the Stasi ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, records of East Germany's secret police are uncovered. The Stasi archives reveal surveillance methods and victims through interviews, documents and reconstructed ...