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 ...

Germany's parliament has voted to transfer the secret files of the Stasi, the intelligence service in communist East Germany, to the national archives despite concerns from researchers.

But new research shows how concrete, barbed wire and a huge effort by the secret police, the Stasi, failed to silence the seductive beat of rock and roll and punk. The rise of Beatlemania in the ...

A civil servant opens a box in the index card room with the names of thousands of people surveilled by the former Ministry for State Security (Stasi) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR ...