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West Berliners queueing at the Friedrichstrasse border crossing into East Berlin, 1972. Photo: ADN-Bildarchiv/ullstein bild via Getty Images

Ex-Stasi officer sentenced to 10 years for 1974 murder of Pole

A Berlin court has sentenced an 80-year-old former Stasi officer to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish national in 1974 at the Friedrichstrasse border crossing in what was then East Berlin.