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AfD’s new state MPs include ex-Stasi officer, former porn actor, neopagans and neo-Nazis

Far-right German party’s newly elected representatives face fresh scrutiny as it tries to form government in Saxony-Anhalt

The Guardian - UK

How Iran draws citizens into political surveillance

Authoritarian governments have long drawn ordinary citizens into political surveillance. Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union encouraged denunciations. East Germany’s secret police service, the Stasi, embedded informants in workplaces and neighbourhoods.

The Conversation

The ex-Stasi agent, the ‘pornstar’ and the perfume salesman: the AfD candidates set to take power in Germany

IN DEPTH : The AfD swept to power in Saxony-Anhalt, causing a political earthquake in Germany and Europe. Alex Croft looks at the problematic pasts of many of its candidates

The Independent UK

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Keira Knightley returns to West End with adaptation of Oscar-winning film

Knightley will take to the stage at London's Adelphi Theatre for an adaptation of the Oscar-winning film ‘The Lives of Others’

The Independent UK

Chernobyl at 40: Secret Stasi files reveal extent of Soviet misinformation campaign over nuclear disaster

On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal design flaw and pushed to the limit by human negligence, reactor 4 exploded amid an attempted shutdown during a routine procedure, setting off a chain of events that ultimately…

The Conversation

Stasi secret files: How James Bond was spied on by East Germany

Stasi files show that 007 violated the GDR border four times at Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin. The whole thing happened during filming for 'Octopussy.' A dangerous scandal in the middle of the Cold War, observed and documented by the Stasi.

Euronews

10 years of Photo Brussels, Belgium’s leading photography festival

Tenth edition showcases Belgian talent and introduces global themes and artists in a celebration of creativity

The Guardian - UK

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‘Soviet-era Stasi’ or defender of media freedoms? The battle for the Broadcasting Standards Authority

The decision by the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) to formally consider a complaint about something Sean Plunket said on The Platform has now spun well beyond the complaint itself.

The Conversation

Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games

A new exhibition in Berlin shows how the notoriously paranoid East German state greeted the dawn of video gaming with surprising enthusiasm

The Guardian - UK

‘I would be terrible at this!’: inside the fiendish TV guessing game whose players have no idea where they are

Breathtaking landscapes! Machiavellian mind tricks! A whole month living on a coach! Rob Brydon takes us inside BBC travel game Destination X, where viewers – and contestants – try to find themselves in Europe

The Guardian - UK

From a rectal kit to a Berlin Wall-era transmitter: the artefacts of Australia’s spy museum which doesn’t exist – yet

More than a dozen intelligence services are represented in Mike Pritchard’s collection of spy gadgets. He wants to bring them to the world

The Guardian - AU

A challenging Suzuka corner’s hidden history

‘Spoon’, ‘130R’, ‘Hairpin’, ‘S Curves’. The corner names at Suzuka have prescriptive, unembellished quality. Except for… Degner.

Motorsport

A Suzuka corner’s hidden history

‘Spoon’, ‘130R’, ‘Hairpin’, ‘S Curves’. The corner names at Suzuka have prescriptive, unembellished quality. Except for… Degner.

Autosport

How this German fringe party plans to 'make socialism great again'

While Germany attempts to form its new government, only four of its political parties will have the chance to become part of a new ruling coalition. The far-right AfD is likely to be excluded from negotiations, and there are 24 other parties that didn't win enough votes to enter parliament.…

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Al Jazeera

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.

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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.

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

Al Jazeera

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.

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Former Stasi Officer Sentenced To 10 Years For Murder

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

The Independent UK

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 Guardian - 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

International Business Times

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.

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