Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Checkpoint Charlie - one of the most dangerous places in the Cold War - was the film set for the 1982 James Bond film Octopussy ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former members of the Stasi come clean about their work for East Germany's infamous secret police in a new book that offers some of the most detailed personal accounts of its ...

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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 ...

Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom, even by killing them. 1 A vehicle smashes into a steel barrier at a ...

The court handed down a guilty verdict and a 10-year sentence to a former officer of East Germany’s dreaded secret police, in a case straight out of the Cold War. By Christopher F. Schuetze ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – A German filmmaker’s efforts to extract records from the CIA on notorious East German Stasi head Erich Mielke came to a close Friday after a federal judge sided with the ...

Checkpoint Charlie - one of the most dangerous places in the Cold War - was the film set for the 1982 James Bond film Octopussy starring 007 actor Roger Moore. The plot could not be more contemporary: ...

SXSW: Historian Peter Keup unearths the traumas of his past to reveal the nefarious actions of the secret police and the surveillance state it imposed during its 40 years in power. For those who haven ...