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German archivists are continuing to rely on the "manual reconstruction" of the files of the former East German secret police, the Stasi, more than 35 years after the country was reunited. The ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - For decades, Joachim Fritsch struggled to understand why he was being denied access to higher education and passed over for job promotions again and again. Then he got hold of a 400 ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Secret files of Communist East Germany's Stasi security police were sent to a film set for use as props, triggering an investigation into how such sensitive documents were obtained.

When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, frantically tore up millions of files gathered during decades of spying on its own citizens. More than two decades ...

Checkpoint Charlie - one of the most dangerous places in the Cold War - was the film set for the 1982 James Bond film Octopussy starring 007 actor Roger Moore. The plot could not be more contemporary: ...

Barbara Poenisch spends most of her days at work doing puzzles -- piecing together a mountain of documents torn up by the hated East German Stasi secret police. The former bookbinder is one in a team ...

All but a few stretches of the Berlin Wall were torn down in the first heady months after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic (G.D.R.). Yet some east Germans still cling to memories of the ...