West German chancellor Willy Brandt was forced to resign in 1974 after it was revealed that an East German spy had worked as ...

August Hanning, who ran Berlin's BND foreign intelligence service, is accused of paying to access secret documents for a foreign spy service.

Prosecutors accused the former BND chief of paying for around 2,000 confidential documents and using classified information ...

The investigation was launched after the discovery of ⁠an alleged leak of intelligence reports intended for the chancellery, Bild said. Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.

HAMBURG.-The early 1980s marked a period of profound change in Germany, characterized by groundbreaking innovations and significant societal anxieties. This was an era when technological advancements, ...

The German Embassy in Tirana has published on social networks a video of the historic moment when East and West Germany ...

No matter what side you were on, espionage was a cornerstone of Cold War political life. But it was also big business.

East Germany's espionage activities in the West boosted the country's economic output by 7.4%. Value added in manufacturing ...

Citizens of former East Germany who faced surveillance and harassment still show higher psychological distress and systemic ...

EAST Germany’s extensive Cold War economic espionage in the 1970s and 1980s lifted its overall economic output by 7.4 percent at the end of the 1980s, according to a study by the Rockwool Foundation ...

China learned from Europe's industrial giants, and now its factories are challenging them in cars, machinery and even luxury goods ...