Under the control of the Stasi East Germany was the most repressive police state in the history of the world. Yet it man | ...

Memorable movie villains are hard to dream up in these politically correct times. Hollywood is swiftly running out of archetypes whose real-life constituents won't come running after the studios for ...

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 ...

July 26 -- When Katarina Witt glided onto the ice, the world watched every move of the beautiful East German figure skater. But behind the curtain, her East German communist government was watching ...