East Germans recall storming the headquarters of hated spy agency
A hand-written flyer changed everything for photographer Ralf Drescher, back in a church in East Germany, in 1990. "Fight ...
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Declassified tapes give new insight into inner workings of East German Stasi
But the files were saved by East German citizens who stormed Stasi offices ... Stasi Records Agency released an analysis of the former police institution’s vast photographic archive, which ...
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Stasi secret police, 35 years on: 'My file is mine'
On January 15, 1990, East Germany's secret police headquarters was stormed ... The Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), founded in 1950, saw itself as ...
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BFC Dynamo: What happened to the East German champions?
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 ...