BERLIN (Reuters) - Former members of the Stasi come clean about their work for East Germany's infamous secret police in a new book that offers some of the most detailed personal accounts of its ...

In her well-researched book A State of Secrecy: Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance, Australian academic Alison Lewis observes that many of those who became informants for the East German ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Two Berliners have caused a stir with a new "Stasi Bar" where guests can sip beer surrounded by listening devices and shredded documents, a stone's throw from the former ...

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 ...

Nazi metaphors have become far too overused. To the Left, everything to the right of Chairman Mao Zedong is fascism. Such overuse of Nazi imagery is disrespectful to the unique evil of the Holocaust.