A former officer in communist East Germany’s notorious Ministry of State Security, or Stasi, will go on trial for murder beginning on Thursday over the 1974 fatal shooting of a Polish man at Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse train station. The man, a former Stasi lieutenant who is now 80 years old, stands accused by prosecutors of having killed 38-year-old Czesław Kukuczka “with a targeted shot to the back from a hiding place” as he crossed the border to West Berlin, according to the indictment. Stasi officials had allegedly granted Kukuczka permission to leave the country and even accompanied him to …