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The defendant stands in front of the district court and covers his face before the verdict is announced in the trial against the ex-Stasi employee for murder of a Polish citizen at the former Berlin-Friedrichstraße border crossing in 1974, in Berlin, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa via AP)

Former officer with East Germany’s secret police sentenced to prison for a border killing in 1974

Associated Press

Lawful but Unconstitutional in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Killing the Constitution: Revised FISA is worse for freedom than its predecessor

By Andrew P. Napolitano

People walk and drive past election posters of the three chancellor candidates, from right, Armin Laschet, Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Annalena Baerbock, German Green party (Die Gruenen), Olaf Scholz, Social Democratic Party (SPD), and Christian Lindner, German Liberals (FDP) at a street in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021 three days before the General election on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

German conservatives warn of ‘extremist’ shift to left in Sunday’s election

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Two people pass the German landmark Brandenburg Gate early morning in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

‘Best Germany yet’ marks 30th anniversary of reunification

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, June 17, 2020 photo Gunnar Dedio, German film producer and managing director of PROGRESS Film GmbH poses for a photo between rolls of film in the archive of PROGRESS Film, in Leipzig, Germany. A new project is underway to digitize thousands of East German newsreels, documentaries and feature films 30 years after Germany’s reunification. The movies that are being scanned, transcribed and posted online provide a look inside a country that no longer exists but was a critical part of the Cold War. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

History on screen: East Germany through its filmmakers’ eyes

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

People line up to see an escape tunnel, underneath the Berlin Wall which divided the city for 28 years during the Cold War, and was make visible for public for the first time, in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019.The tunnel was built by a group of people who had escaped earlier from communist East Germany to West Berlin. They wanted to help friends and family to flee to the West, too, but days before it was finished, East German officials discovered and destroyed it. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Escape tunnel underneath Berlin Wall opens to public

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019 photo, Frieder Reimold the former Berlin bureau chief of The Associated Press' German service talks to AP reporter Kirsten Grieshaber during an interview with the Associated Press in Berlin, Germany. On Nov. 9, 1989, Frieder Reimold was the AP staffer who sent out the iconic AP news alert, &quot;DDR oeffnet Grenze,&quot; or &quot;East Germany opens border&quot; that further accelerated events that night. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

AP reporter recounts covering fall of Berlin Wall in 1989

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday Nov. 12, 1989 file photo, West German policeman, left, gives a helping hand to an East German border guard who climbs through a gap of the Berlin Wall when East Germany opened another passage at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)

AP’s story on the day the Wall fell

By NESHA STARCEVIC - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 13, 1989 file photo, East German border guards stand in front of segments of the Berlin Wall, which were removed to open the wall at Potsdamer Platz passage in Berlin. When the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union stepped back, letting East Germany's communist government collapse and then quickly accepting German unification. (AP Photo/John Gaps III, File)

Berlin Wall’s fall stokes memories of lost hopes in Russia

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 1989 file photo two East German border guards patrolled atop of Berlin Wall with the illuminated Brandenburg Gate in background, in Berlin. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck, file)

Art group to rebuild Berlin Wall in German capital

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

Kim Ryon-Hyang, of North Korea, skis during the first run of the women's slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

As athletes struggle, Kim Jong Un dreams of Olympic glory

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

The May 16, 2014 photo shows former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in front of a piece of the Berlin Wall in Kohl's garden in Oggersheim near Ludwigshafen, southwestern Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, file)

Helmut Kohl, chancellor who reunited Germany, dies at 87

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2014, AT 12:01 A.M; NOV. 10, 1989, FILE PHOTO - In this Nov. 10, 1989, file photo, East and West Berliners mingle as they celebrate in front of a control station on East Berlin territory, during the opening of the borders to the West following the announcement by the East German government that the border to the West would be open. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck, File)

AP WAS THERE: The Berlin Wall crumbles

By NESHA STARCEVIC - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Election recalls the two Berlins

The Washington Times

German court mulls restitution of Nazi-seized art

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

Christa Wolf, writer from then-East Germany, dies

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, and President Christian Wulff, left, speak to spectators as they attend the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall in Berlin, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. Germany marks the 50th anniversary of the day communist East Germany sealed itself off behind the Wall. (Photo/ Markus Schreiber)

Germany marks construction of the Berlin Wall

By Juergen Baetz - Associated Press

Illustration: Berlin Wall by John Camejo for The Washington Times

FIELDS: Remembering the shame

By Suzanne Fields - The Washington Times

Merkel thanks Gorbachev during Wall ceremonies