BERLIN — At its height, the Staatssicherheit, or Stasi, employed one full-time agent for every 63 East German citizens. Taking into account unofficial informers, one out of every seven people in the ...

The Leipziger Strasse in central Berlin looks like almost any another main traffic artery in the world these days. It’s four lanes in each direction, and high rise buildings with nondescript shops on ...

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Germany has revived the scent-tracking methods of the former Stasi secret police to keep a check on protesters planning to demonstrate at the G8 summit next month. Scents collected directly from palm ...

Reports that the German police have taken smell samples of suspected would-be G8 protestors on Wednesday saw politicians accuse the state of resorting to the dubious methods of the Stasi secret police ...

Bellingcat researcher Timmi Allen zooms in on Google Earth to a Berlin police station where he once worked for East Germany's feared secret police -- the Stasi. "Under this [station] there is a deep ...

Most of Germany agrees: Those who worked for the East German secret police should not hold positions of power in the reunified country. But some of the ex-spies feel they are subject to discrimination ...

An outraged Germany plans to put pressure on President Obama to end America’s Internet surveillance program, calling such tactics akin to East German’s secret police security program. The U.S.

BERLIN, May 23 (UPI) -- Germany is coming under fire for introducing security measures used by the communist secret police ahead of the Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm. Politicians of nearly all ...

As more is revealed about the notorious Saydnaya Prison, it appears the tactics of the former Assad dictatorship were shaped by Nazi war criminals who fled abroad after World War II, as well as the ...