Jamie Coughlin Silverman and Gabriel Silverman say their doc, debuting at SXSW, has parallels to today, from data collection to times "when your neighbors turn on each other, when realities become ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Checkpoint Charlie - one of the most dangerous places in the Cold War - was the film set for the 1982 James Bond film Octopussy ...

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 ...

On a recent trip back to my old student stomping grounds in Berlin I took in the Stasi Museum. Its most shocking exhibits are photos of people who look as far from one’s idea of Cold War informants as ...