Piecing Together the Dark Legacy of East Germany's Secret Police
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In May 2007, a team of German computer scientists in Berlin announced that after four years of work, they had completed a system to digitally tape together the torn fragments of shredded records that the East German secret police compiled on some of its citizens.
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Public stink over 'scent profiling' German police are compiling a Stasi-style "scent bank" database of potentially violent crusty protesters against global capitalism, according to reports.â¦
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Early on Feb. 27, 1943, under the waning cover of dark, SS troops, Gestapo thugs and street police rounded up Berlin's remaining Jews for what the Reich euphemistically referred to as deportation.
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In Internet chat rooms, TV talks shows and cafe conversations, the topic is on everybody's lips: The opening of the files of Romania's dreaded secret police that have been buried since the fall of communism 17 ...
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One was a concentration camp doctor who purportedly injected poison into the hearts of Jews. The other was once an aide to Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann. Austria wants to find Alois Brunner and Aribert Heim, both in their 90s if still alive, and bring them to justice.
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East Germans gave a strong boost to right wing extremists and the former communists in two state elections, punishing the countryâs biggest mainstream parties for the regionâs high unemployment and cuts in social programmes.
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COTTBUS - Former communist East Germany has been transformed for the better 15 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall even though big problems remain including high unemployment and a worrying tendency of voters to back extremist parties.
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BUDAPEST-Early this month, Hungarians learned that a well-known television show host and theatre critic had been exposed as a former spy for the country's Communist-era secret police.
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BELGRADE, Aug 25 (IPS) - Every other person now seems a spy of sorts.  Bugging devices, secret cameras and other surveillance equipment  are no longer the exclusive tools of the police; more and more,  ordinary people are beginning to use such devices.
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The new scandal mesmerizing Poland seems lifted from a Cold War dossier: Spies, oil traders, a polo player, and a billionaire are tangled in a rumored plot by Moscow to manipulate its smaller neighbor.
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Bystanders gazed in curiosity and disgust Monday at the razor-wire-topped fence that will separate Group of Eight leaders from the rest of Germany during this week's summit &#151; part of security measures that, for some, evoke memories of life behind the Iron Curtain.
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Fifteen years ago they were heroes, ignoring the secret police to march defiantly through the grim streets of East Germany with banners that said: "We are the people - Listen to us." The East German workers ...
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BANGKOK - With the help of a computer program, German police digitally unscrambled the swirls that obscured the face of a man depicted having sex with boys in Vietnam and Cambodia.
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BERLIN, Feb. 12 -- A court paroled a onetime leader of Germany's notorious Red Army Faction on Monday after 24 years in prison, stirring bitter memories of the left-wing terrorist group's attacks on law enforcement and business leaders, which plunged the country into fear three decades ago.
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Nearly 17 years after Romania's communist regime collapsed, the first of an estimated 1.3 million files amassed by its secret police are finally about to become public, and already the nation is convulsed by revelations of how citizens were forced into betraying friends and colleagues.
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In Internet chat rooms, TV talks shows and cafe conversations, the topic is on everybody's lips: The opening of the files of Romania's dreaded secret police that have been buried since the fall of communism 17 years ago.
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BRATISLAVA, Jan 25 (IPS) - The resignation of a senior minister following the  publication of files identifying him  as a communist secret  police agent has provoked one of the largest public debates on   Slovakia's communist past since the fall of communism 15  years ago.