The trial, largely based on historical documents and fading memories, has underlined the difficulties Germany has faced in ...

The trial, which lasted for over six months, largely relied on historical documents from the Stasi records archive and ...

The verdict marks the first time a former member of the East German secret police was convicted of such a crime since the ...

A court in Berlin has sentenced a former member of East Germany's notorious secret police to 10 years imprisonment for murder ...

An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, has been sentenced to 10 years in ...

Appelius found clues in the Stasi’s own meticulous records. After publishing his research both in an academic journal and in ...

A former officer for Communist East Germany's Stasi secret police was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for the fatal ...

Almost 35 years after the Berlin Wall fell, it is said to be the first time a former Stasi officer has been convicted of a ...

If ex-Stasi officer Martin Naumann, 80, is found guilty, it would be the first conviction of its kind, almost 35 years after ...

An ex-Stasi officer on Monday received 10 years in prison for murder in connection with a fatal 1974 shooting at a border ...

The man, named as Martin Manfred N in court papers, is now 80. He shot Czeslaw Kukuczka in the back at Friedrichstrasse ...

At noon on March 29th, 1974, the 38-year-old Polish man, Czeslaw Kukuczka, appeared at the Polish embassy in East Berlin. He ...