Burglars steal Soviet medals from Berlin’s Stasi Museum
Communist-era medals and jewellery of historical interest rather than significant monetary value have been stolen from Berlin’s Stasi Museum (pictured)…
Tag: East Germany
New Berlin media boss was Stasi informer
Germany’s Berliner Zeitung is to investigate its new owner after he confirmed his role as an informant for the Stasi,…
Leipzig marks 30 years since Cold War uprising
Leipzig, East Germany’s second city, held a candle-lit memorial on October 9 when approximately 70,000 residents marched past the headquarters…
Germany to move Stasi files to giant archive
Germany’s parliament has voted to transfer secret East German police files to the Federal Archives, despite concerns that they will…
AfD fails to win key German elections
The two parties in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition maintained a slim lead in two eastern regions yesterday (Sunday). …
Germany to return Portuguese cross to Namibia
Germany is set to return a 15th-century stone cross it took from Namibia as part of its ongoing efforts to…
Putin’s Stasi pass found in archives
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s old Stasi identity card has been discovered after 28 years in the Dresden archives of the…
Tech fail stop Stasi file study
Technology has failed to piece together millions of Stasi files shredded as Communist East Germany fell. The state-funded Stasi records…
Kohl’s surprise vision
After the death at the weekend of the architect of German reunification, Helmut Kohl, aged 87, his legacy is a…
Cold War legend Kohl dies, 87
Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the architect of German reunification, has died aged 87. “We mourn,” Kohl’s Christian Democratic Union…
Germany to compensate ‘gay’ prisoners
Cologne Gay Pride 2016. Germany is putting forward legislation to compensate men convicted under the hated Paragraph 175 of the…