While Germany attempts to form its new government, only four of its political parties will have the chance to become part of ...

SXSW: Historian Peter Keup unearths the traumas of his past to reveal the nefarious actions of the secret police and the ...

“Leave your colorful butterflies and lay your axe to the edifice of the capitalist economic order.” — Eugen Leviné ...

Very short article by the KAPD about it's functions that it must perform in the course of a revolution. Originally published ...

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Communism was applied as a political ideology ... My paternal grandfather tried to flee the country to West Germany, while one of my uncles from my mother’s side worked in a border guard unit ...

Built in 1961 to stop residents from fleeing communist Germany, it became an enduring symbol of the Cold War. An era when one-time allies had drifted so far apart in the aftermath of World War II ...

This is the realization faced by Stasi victim Peter Keup, the focus of “The Spies Among Us,” as well as our guide to Germany’s history with communist dictatorship. Keup was imprisoned for ...