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Why I'm Afraid of My Family's Secret Police Files
Last summer, I found out that my late uncle Holger was in the Stasi – East Germany's notorious secret police agency.
The Ketwurst Is Germany’s Strangely Phallic Answer to the Hot Dog
The ketwurst is an East German hot-dog-not-hot-dog made by pushing a bread roll onto a hot spike, toasting the inside, swilling a sausage around in a tray of ketchup, and squeezing the resulting meat mess into the bread hole.
Shredded Spy Agency Documents Become Readymade Art
Conceptual artist Daniel Knorr artistically explores the legacy of East Germany’s spy agency, the Stasi.
Meeting the Creators of 'Deutschland 83 ,' the German TV Show That Will Make You Nostalgic for the Cold War
Set in 1983, the Cold War drama deals with life in Germany on the brink of the fall of the Berlin Wall through the eyes of a young man who's forced to become a Stasi spy.
Surprisingly, the Biggest Collection of Cold War Memorabilia Is in Los Angeles
The Wende Museum houses a treasure trove of more than 100,000 objects from the former Eastern Bloc, ranging from Stasi audio tapes to East German household cleaning products.
Listen to the Best Metal Mixtape You'll Hear All Summer
It's from Florian Grill, the head of the Dying Victims Productions label and author of the zine "Thrash Attack."
Harald Hauswald's Photos Shaped Our Generation's Perception of East Germany
We spoke with him about state-sponsored hooligans and smuggling rolls of films from the West to the East.
The French Punk Who Tore Down the Berlin Wall
This Saturday is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. We found the guy whose face made all the front pages the day after he was photographed smashing the shit out of it with a hammer.
'For the Value and Image of Our Brand': Red Bull's Audacious German Soccer Plot
Red Bull owns a team in the German soccer system that's turning heads, but the corporation is catching heat for their plan to take over the Bundesliga.
The Stasi Used to Spy On Skaters
Skateboarding was American, therefore subversive and dangerous, so the Stasi began monitoring the skating community to keep tabs on any potential troublemakers or ringleaders.
Crossing the Danube
Between World War II and the fall of Communism, many fled Soviet-controlled East Germany and headed westward. The stories of these defectors have been exhaustively documented, but much less is known about the few who headed against the tide, west to...