The exhibits quickly bring home the vast scope of the Stasi's domestic spying. East Germany’s dictatorship would have loved ...

Barbara Poenisch spends most of her days at work doing puzzles -- piecing together a mountain of documents torn up by the hated East German Stasi secret police. There are still 400 to 600 million ...

"Gabriele's work is inseparable from her socio-political context," Daniel Blochwitz, the show's curator, told ARTnews ...

East Germany's feared secret police had a bit of a sartorial flair. This photo was of a man wearing a fur hat, gold-rimmed sunglasses and a fake moustache was part of a seminar to teach incoming Stasi ...