The Stasi Museum in East Berlin is amazing, not least because it's the actual former headquarters of East Germany's secret ...

But new research shows how concrete, barbed wire and a huge effort by the secret police, the Stasi, failed to silence the seductive beat of rock and roll and punk. The rise of Beatlemania in the ...

In one room saved from a fire, we got a glimpse into Assad's system of fear. The Stasi Museum in East Berlin is amazing, not least because it's the actual former headquarters of East Germany's ...

Under the control of the Stasi East Germany was the most repressive police state in the history of the world. Yet it managed to convince the West that it was being progressive. Here is the story ...

For the regime, it was the beginning of the end. Even after the fall of the Wall, the lurking power of the Stasi, the secret police, remained. East Germans continued to demonstrate against the ...

Vladimir Putin was 33 when he received this Stasi ID card A Stasi ID pass used by Vladimir Putin when he was a Soviet spy in former East Germany has been found in the Stasi secret police archive ...

A Labour MP has labelled the police investigation into Allison Pearson over a social media post as “Stasi-like”. Graham Stringer, the MP for Blackley and Middleton South, said the police ...

I got an early Christmas present. Lord Herbert, chairman of the College of Policing, has said that the Government should ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, records of East Germany's secret police are uncovered. The Stasi archives reveal surveillance methods and victims through interviews, documents and reconstructed ...

A senior Labour MP has described Essex Police's decision to investigate Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson over an X post as "Stasi-like". Graham Stringer, MP for Blackley & Middleton South ...