CBSNews.com's Christine Lagorio is filing weekly dispatches from Berlin while writing for the Financial Times Deutschland as part of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program. Throughout the 1980s, ...

Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

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Since this story was published, it has emerged that the photo in Michael Jackson’s Stasi file showing him at the Berlin Wall is actually a shot of a look-alike, hired by a German TV station and good ...

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BERLIN (Reuters) - As an East German dissident he was forced into exile by the Stasi. Now, almost 30 years later, Roland Jahn will become caretaker of the vast archives of the secret police force that ...

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It was set up as a unique historical experiment: an agency that would open up the secret service's files to those it had spied upon. But now the commissioner in charge of the East Germany's secret ...

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 ...

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