German archivists are continuing to rely on the "manual reconstruction" of the files of the former East German secret police, the Stasi, more than 35 years after the country was reunited. The ...

Tens of thousands of Germans continue to consult their files from the Stasi, the former East German state security agency, as the country prepares to mark 35 years since reunification on Friday. The ...

BERLIN — The German government released files on members of parliament who were ensnared by East German agents three decades ago, responding to criticism that the office overseeing the documents was ...

When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, frantically tore up millions of files gathered during decades of spying on its own citizens. More than two decades ...

Germans are only now starting to realise the extent to which Communist East Germany's dreaded Stasi secret service infiltrated and influenced West Germany, the head of the state-run Stasi archives ...

Barbara Poenisch spends most of her days at work doing puzzles -- piecing together a mountain of documents torn up by the hated East German Stasi secret police. The former bookbinder is one in a team ...

BERLIN, March 8 -- Wiretap recordings of Helmut Kohl collected by the East German secret police were sealed by a court today, handing the former chancellor a victory with broad implications for public ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Secret files of Communist East Germany's Stasi security police were sent to a film set for use as props, triggering an investigation into how such sensitive documents were obtained.