A former officer for Communist East Germany’s Stasi secret police was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for the fatal ...

"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg misremembered a key detail about when President Ronald Reagan challenged Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev during the Cold War.

Lutz Seiler’s “Star 111” vividly captures the city at a time of profound change, through the story of one young man and his ...

Czeslaw Kukuczka was shot in the back as he tried to flee from East Germany via the Berlin Wall on March 29, 1974.

In all, at least 140 people were killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1989, and hundreds more died while ...

A former officer for Communist East Germany's Stasi secret police was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for the fatal ...

An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in ...

Ulbricht is unlikely to dismantle the Wall or allow closer contact with West Germany until he feels that East Germans will no longer be tempted by better jobs and living conditions across the border.

A former officer of the East German secret police was found guilty by a Berlin court of murder in the 1978 shooting death of ...

A former officer for Communist East Germany’s Stasi secret police was sentenced to 10 years in prison. For the fatal shooting ...

The court handed down a guilty verdict and a 10-year sentence to a former officer of East Germany’s secret police, in a case ...

North executes people for wide range of offenses: Report UN report details North Korea's 'deeply institutionalized' forced ...