Martin Naumann hides his face from cameras at a Berlin courtroom before being convicted of murder - SEBASTIAN CHRISTOPH GOLLNOW/DPA/ALAMY An elderly former Stasi guard has been jailed for 10 years ...

An ex-Stasi officer on Monday received 10 years in prison for murder in connection with a fatal 1974 shooting at a border crossing between the former East and West Germany in Berlin. The 80-year-old ...

An 80-year-old ex-Stasi officer was sentenced to 10 years for a Cold War-era murder on Monday. Martin Naumann shot 38-year-old Polish citizen Czesław Kukuczka at a border crossing in Berlin, 50 years ...

Oct. 14 (UPI) --A former officer of the East German secret police was found guilty by a Berlin court of murder in the 1978 shooting death of a Polish citizen attempting to cross into West Berlin. In a ...

BERLIN – Berlin's mayor is seeking the dismissal of an official who has faced increasing pressure over his former ties with communist East Germany's secret police, the Stasi. Andrej Holm was appointed ...

An 80-year-old ex-employee of the former East German secret police has been charged with murdering Czeslaw Kukuczka, a Polish man who attempted to flee to West Berlin ...

Berlin (AFP) – A former East German secret police officer was sentenced to 10 years in jail in a landmark ruling on Monday for shooting dead a Polish man trying to flee to the West 50 years ago. The ...

Prosecutors say a former member of communist East Germany’s secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided Berlin in 1974 Thursday 12 ...

A former Stasi officer will go on trial in Germany on Thursday for shooting a Polish man attempting to flee to West Berlin almost 50 years ago, a case that could impact how killings committed in the ...

Berlin’s chic new Château Royal is a former Stasi spy hub. Today, after several years of painstaking renovations, it’s a gorgeous boutique hotel. And the location is superb: in the heart of Berlin ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - For thousands of former employees of Communist East Germany's loathed Stasi secret police, next week's 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is no cause for celebration.