East German

He played star Nick Rivers, sucked into an East German plot to reunify Germany.

A former East German secret police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for murdering a Polish man attempting to flee to West Berlin 50 years ago.

Those in West Germany were afforded freedom beyond the wildest dreams of East Germans, but it's becoming increasingly clear that many chose exactly the same methods as the enemy.

“You are entering the G.D.R. now,” he yelled with mock anger, referring to the extinct East German state.

By now, he spoke good German and he was posted to the East German city of Dresden in 1985 where he saw first-hand the collapse of a communist state in 1989.