But the files were saved by East German citizens who stormed Stasi offices in the city of Erfurt. Earlier this year, researchers at the Stasi Records Agency released an analysis of the former ...

Their files from the time are full of things like photographs of slogans chalked on roads in East German towns telling ... a socialist youth group uniform. Berlin's Stasi Museum displays the ...

As more is revealed about the notorious Saydnaya Prison, it appears the tactics of the former Assad dictatorship were shaped ...

Getty Images Bags of torn up documents from the Stasi files are kept and could one day be pieced together Since then, thousands of former East German residents have been able to read what the ...

It's a significant fall from grace for BFC Dynamo, ten-time Oberliga champions, three-time East German cup winners and pride of Erich Mielke, the head of the secret police, or Stasi. And yet ...

Yet it managed to convince the West that it was being progressive. Here is the story of how the Stasi gained control over the lives of the East German people and the methods it used.