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.

Former dissidents, released secret service files and a zine in an East Berlin basement reveal a little-known chapter of Cold ...

Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom ...

Historians connected Naumann with the shooting by reconstructing old Stasi files that had been shredded. Naumann's attorneys said since there was no physical evidence linking him to the incident ...

In the chaos of 1989-90, as the Soviet-allied police state collapsed, Stasi officers frantically shredded files and, when the machines broke down under the strain, tore documents up by hand to ...

East Germans continued to demonstrate against the Stasi, which compiled millions of files, prying into every aspect of people's lives. On 4 December 1989, crowds stormed the Stasi headquarters in ...

Essays focus, variously, on the files of the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate (in relation to Transylvanian Germans in Romania), and the Hungarian State Security Agency. Contributors: Carol ...

After the Berlin Wall fell, Stasi officers frantically shredded files and, when the machines broke down under the strain, tore documents up by hand to pulp or burn the scraps. During the 1990s ...

In a neat twist, he then worked at the Stasi archive, where former Stasi victims and researchers can access released files. Halbrock has also written several books about the Stasi and the GDR.