7 A car is driven towards a row of spikes as another tire-piercing plate awaits its trial at the Stasi's secret test facility in 1980. 8 An image from the Stasi archives apparently showing a ...

Irmtraut Hollitzer, who now runs the Stasi Museum, in the former Stasi headquarters building, was present on that dramatic night. By chance, she discovered a piece of paper showing how her and her ...

A Stasi photo taken during a raid of activists ... 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.

Stasi was actually the nickname for East German ... he personally calmed the Dresden crowd when they surrounded the KGB building there, warning them that it was Soviet territory.