The court handed down a guilty verdict and a 10-year sentence to a former officer of East Germany’s dreaded secret police, in a case straight out of the Cold War. By Christopher F. Schuetze ...
An 80-year old ex-officer of East Germany’s Stasi secret police force was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday by the Berlin Regional Court for the murder of Czeslaw Kukuczka in 1974. The 10-year ...