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 ...

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.

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 ...

A double agent who operated for the CIA and the Dutch security service against the Stasi tells his story for the first time. The decision to move the Stasi files into the German national archive has ...