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Bowie’s Berlin: Up against the wall

David Bowie’s 1987 concert in West Berlin could be heard on the other side of the wall in Eastern Germany.

Al Jazeera

I paid money to drive a real car that filled up with fumes when I didn't pump the pedal, and it's all because I loved Jalopy

The anti-Formula 1 game taught me to embrace boredom and the history under my nose.

PC Gamer

Regrets, feminism, and Trump’s ‘fascination’ with Putin: key takeways from Merkel’s memoir

The former German chancellor’s book Freedom gives insights on Brexit and her East German upbringing

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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world

In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

The Guardian - UK

As a former East German athlete doped by the state, I see how our past pain is fuelling the far right

In east Germany, our history is shrouded in lies and silence. Until we break their hold, support for extremism will flourish, says academic and author Ines Geipel

The Guardian - UK

Former Stasi official sentenced to 10 years for 1974 Berlin border murder

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

Al Jazeera

Former Stasi Officer Sentenced To 10 Years For Murder

Former Stasi officer convicted for 1974 murder at Berlin border during Cold War tensions.

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Former officer with East Germany’s secret police sentenced to prison for a border killing in 1974

An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided Berlin 50 years ago

The Independent UK

Former Stasi secret police officer jailed for murder at Berlin Wall border crossing

The city was divided at the time by the Berlin Wall

The Independent UK

Former Stasi officer jailed for 10 years over 1974 Berlin border shooting

Martin Naumann, 80, shot Czesław Kukuczka in the back at close range as he tried to cross into West Berlin

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Stasi Officer Faces Verdict Over 1974 Berlin Border Killing

A former East German secret police officer faces a verdict Monday in a murder trial, accused of shooting dead a Polish man trying to flee to the West 50 years ago.

International Business Times

Spy/Master: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and everything you need to know

Spy/Master is a Cold War spy series starring Happy Valley’s Alec Secăreanu as a Soviet secret agent who defects to the US.

WhatToWatch

'Puzzle Women': Piecing together the files destroyed by East Germany's secret police

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a team of archivists has been tirelessly sorting, pasting and reassembling documents that were destroyed by the Stasi, the East German secret police. Nicknamed the "Puzzle Women", these heroines of collective memory face the Herculean task of piecing together these files:…

France 24

Stasi FC review – the astonishing tale of the secret police’s football team

The games were rigged, players’ families were held and, eventually, all their fans deserted them. This is an astute look at the wild story of a Stasi-run East German club

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TV tonight: the wild story of the Stasi, its football team … and assassination

Stasi FC is a gripping feature documentary. Plus: it’s Junior Eurovision time! Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Cheating, spying and … murder? Inside the Stasi’s very own football team

From intimidating referees to putting players under surveillance, BFC Dynamo was an unstoppable football squad … run by the secret police. Now the team are speaking out for a documentary

The Independent UK

Former agent of East Germany's Stasi agency is charged over the 1974 border killing of a Polish man

Prosecutors say a former member of communist East Germany’s secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided Berlin in 1974

Evening Standard

OPINION - How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?

In the culture wars, hypersensitivity and accusations of ‘hate’ risk leading us into an Orwellian future

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Freddie Forsyth compares Met Police to ‘Stasi hounding an old codger’ in speed fine row

The Day of the Jackal writer has been hauled before a court after an administrative error — which he insists the Met is to blame for

The Guardian - UK

East German dissident singer Wolf Biermann celebrated in Berlin exhibition

Exile in 1976 spawned mass protest movement and led to exodus of some of GDR’s top artists and actors

Los Angeles Times

Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him

DRESDEN, Germany — Meticulous. Reticent. Clever, but never showy about it. Ever the watcher.

The Guardian - UK

From rampaging teens to female assassins: why has East German culture become so cool?

Is Britain’s sudden appetite for the GDR an unhealthy obsession? Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall, examines the new wave of books and shows about life under the Stasi in the vanished state

The Guardian - UK

Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer review – the human face of the socialist state

This revisionist history of East Germany paints a picture of a land that catered for its people’s needs – albeit while subjecting them to constant state surveillance

The Guardian - UK

Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer review – overturning cliches of East Germany

A revisionist history that adds stability, contentment and women’s rights to the familiar picture of authoritarianism

The Guardian - UK

10 of the best hotels in Berlin

A repurposed 19th-century public bathhouse, an old factory housing vintage caravans and a former Stasi spy hub are among the eclectic places to stay in the German capital

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