The court handed down a guilty verdict and a 10-year sentence to a former officer of East Germany’s dreaded secret police, in a case straight out of the Cold War.
By Christopher F. Schuetze
Jenny Erpenbeck became a writer when her childhood and her country, the German Democratic Republic, disappeared, swallowed by the materialist West.
By Steven Erlanger
In “Beyond the Wall,” the historian Katja Hoyer draws on archives and interviews to bring the eastern half of Germany back into the postwar picture.
By Kati Marton
A director at Germany’s spy service was picked up on suspicion of passing intelligence to Russia. German officials and allies worry just how deep the problem goes.
By Erika Solomon, Christopher F. Schuetze and Julian E. Barnes
Un equipo de archivistas pasa el tiempo en la minuciosa labor de reconstruir millones de documentos que la policía secreta de Alemania del Este intentaba destruir.
By Annalisa Quinn and Mustafah Abdulaziz
Researchers undertake the massive task of recreating millions of torn-up records that the East German secret police hoped to destroy.
By Annalisa Quinn and Mustafah Abdulaziz
An entrepreneur took over a venerable Berlin daily, saying he wanted a new conversation about East Germany. Then his own past became the news.
By Christopher F. Schuetze
In celebrating the Federal Intelligence Service’s move from Munich to Berlin, Chancellor Angela Merkel tried to sell the necessity of the agency to distrustful Germans.
By Christopher F. Schuetze
Politicians and teachers say an effort by the Alternative for Germany party, urging people to report teachers for violating a neutrality law, resembles the work of East Germany’s secret police.
By Melissa Eddy
In this documentary, a filmmaker returns to her hometown in the former East Germany seeking personal and political insight.
By A.O. Scott
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