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.

Gerd Wiesler is an officer with the Stasi, the East German secret police. The film begins in 1984 when Wiesler attends a play written by Georg Dreyman, who is considered by many to be the ultimate ...

Order authorizes escapees, including women and children, to be fired on Some estimates put number of people killed while crossing border at 1,000 Many accused of shootings argue they were not ...

Throughout the summer of 1989, the Communist regime found itself under enormous pressure because huge numbers of East Germans ... where the Stasi had their offices. In English and German.

Punk rockers in former East Germany were seen by the secret police, the Stasi, as a subversive anti-government force. Now more than 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Chaos, who was part ...