BERLIN, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Manfred Lehmann avoids Berlin landmarks such as the Brandenburg Gate where hawkers selling old East German medals or students posing in guard uniforms for tourists are a ...

Madeleine tours a former Stasi prison in Berlin—now a museum—where the East German Secret Police held and interrogated political prisoners during the Cold War. Due to their divided history, Germans ...

Berlin's Stasi Museum Offers Uncomfortable Lessons About Surveillance, State Coercion The exhibits quickly bring home the vast scope of the Stasi's domestic spying. East Germany’s dictatorship would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film follows the personal investigation by Peter Keup, a Stasi victim-turned-historian, into family secrets. His search for ...

While the hammer and compass insignia of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) makes for visually interesting retro T-shirts, some college students might forget that life in the former East Germany was ...

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 ...