BERLIN, May 28 (UPI) -- Germany will have to rewrite part of its history: The man who in 1967 fired the shot that went on to change West Germany was a spy working for communist East Germany. Until ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Stasi files: History's biggest jigsaw puzzle? — Frunder was contacted by the agency after pieces of paper were discovered with his name and the name of the Stasi agent who betrayed him.

Like most government agencies, the NSA lacks a sense of humor; instead, it has paranoia, which can be unintentionally comic. Case in point: The agency’s recent cease-and-desist letter to Dan McCall, ...

Stack up the files left behind by East Germany's feared secret police – the Stasi – and you could fill the road from Newry to Dublin. A quarter of a century after East Germany ceased to exist, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film follows the personal investigation by Peter Keup, a Stasi victim-turned-historian, into family secrets. His search for ...

In a tiny government office in Zirndorf, Georg Schleyer takes handfuls of ripped up bits of paper out of a sack and arranges them on his desk. As more and more scraps emerge from the bag, the jumble ...