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

No violence!" For the regime, it was the beginning of the end. Even after the fall of the Wall, the lurking power of the Stasi, the secret police, remained. East Germans continued to demonstrate ...

Clooney's idea that the media are truth-tellers focused on “speaking truth to power” is laughable. CNN and ABC recently had to pay out to settle libel lawsuits.

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

The Stasi archives reveal surveillance methods and victims through interviews, documents and reconstructed files.

The release of a series of top-secret Stasi tapes is shedding light on the inner workings of the once-feared German police agency. The 14 highly classified recordings were once held by the agency ...

In 1960 Saverio Stasi left Naples, Italy, seeking a better life in the United States. He settled in Westbury, NY and started a landscaping company. A brick mason by trade, he soon added brickwork ...

But as contemporary films like The Lives of Others (2006) and Barbara (2012) have shown, life under the Stasi offers fascinating material for dramatists. The tension is built-in, and history provides ...

The European Court of Human Rights rejects Alberto Stasi's appeal, confirming his 16-year sentence for the murder of Chiara ...

It's a significant fall from grace for BFC Dynamo, ten-time Oberliga champions, three-time East German cup winners and pride of Erich Mielke, the head of the secret police, or Stasi. And yet ...

The 28-year-old filmmaker has won the Best Documentary Feature award at the 2025 Berlin Independent Film Festival for his film ‘Beyond the Berlin Wall – Reports from Stasi Prisoners’ ...