Erich Mielke
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Stasi files catalogue tragedy and trauma of four toxic decades
- Europe
- November 6, 2019, 01:00
Some 30 years on, the files are still there. Locked away from the daylight in climate-controlled rooms, shelf after shelf of battered orange cardboard(...)

East German Stasi archive goes online
- Europe
- January 10, 2015, 01:04
A quarter century ago, officers of East Germany’s Stasi secret police worked around the clock to destroy decades of files. When the overworked shredde(...)

How the Berlin Wall fell: a chronology
- Europe
- November 6, 2014
East Germany ceased to exist four days before its 41st birthday, on the day of German unity: October 3rd 1990. But the emotional end of East Germany c(...)

Edward Snowden finds an unlikely admirer in former Stasi agent
- Europe
- July 5, 2013, 01:00
A former agent in East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, has praised NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as a “hero” and dismissed as “hypocritical” es(...)