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Reports that the German police have taken smell samples of suspected would-be G8 protestors on Wednesday saw politicians accuse the state of resorting to the dubious methods of the Stasi secret police ...

As President Barack Obama prepares to visit Germany next week, German officials are turning up the heat on the U.S. over its Internet surveillance, according to reports, with one official calling the ...

Most of Germany agrees: Those who worked for the East German secret police should not hold positions of power in the reunified country. But some of the ex-spies feel they are subject to discrimination ...

A quarter century ago, officers of East Germany’s Stasi secret police worked around the clock to destroy decades of files. When the overworked shredders began to melt, they tore up papers by hand.