Oldcastle Books has signed First Class Comrades: The Stasi in the Cold War, 1945-1961 by former bookseller Jack Boulter.

The Ministry for State Security (MfS) was active in many areas in the GDR and abroad. Thanks to the commitment of many ...

Hidden in the forests of eastern Germany are relics of the Cold War. This documentary follows experts as they search for ...

Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office wants to secretly break into homes as part of anti-terrorism measures. That is ...

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser’s recent proposal to revisit a controversial surveillance method reminiscent of the East ...

The idea that East German security services could recruit a young GDR soldier against his will, drug and kidnap him, dumping him in West Germany where, within days, he is to take on the persona of a ...

The GDR was neither a hell nor a utopia ... and dominance by the Socialist Unity Party (38 per cent) but Stasi spying only scored 5 per cent. Positive associations were considerably stronger — full ...

His involvement in peaceful protests and non-violent resistance, including during the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, ...

By repeatedly emphasising that GDR football was part of an international story, for example, through analysis of the 1974 World Cup finals, Alan McDougall shows how sport transcended the Iron Curtain.

What would Marta Kos' Yugoslav secret service past imply, and what kind of a role did the socialist republic's spy agency ...

Maria Kolesnikova, who was chosen as the cover photo for our theme day, is one of the women who has been in political prison in Belarus since the 2020 protests. Sentenced to eleven years in prison, ...

On this day in 1979, eight people from two families escaped from East Germany by crossing the border into West Germany at night in a homemade hot air ballon. The unique feat was the result of ...