Forget 1984! You don’t usually get a non-fiction look behind the curtain of the state security and secret police apparatus in a dictatorship. The Spies Among Us, a new documentary from Jamie Coughlin ...

To trust in the good intentions of our rulers is to put liberty at risk. I'd go to jail rather than accept this kind of ID card ...

Berlin's Stasi Museum Offers Uncomfortable Lessons About Surveillance, State Coercion The exhibits quickly bring home the vast scope of the Stasi's domestic spying. East Germany’s dictatorship would ...

Ralf Drescher recalls joining a demonstration and storming the headquarters of the East German secret police 35 years ago. Jörg Carstensen/dpa A hand-written flyer changed everything for photographer ...

Wolfgang Schmidt was seated in Berlin’s 1,200-foot-high TV tower, one of the few remaining landmarks left from the former East Germany. Peering out over the city that lived in fear when the communist ...

Madeleine tours a former Stasi prison in Berlin—now a museum—where the East German Secret Police held and interrogated political prisoners during the Cold War. Due to their divided history, Germans ...