How did the East German state keep its people under surveillance? We get a peek behind the scenes at the former Stasi ...

Meanwhile at home in East Germany, for those protesters who were ... Even after the fall of the Wall, the lurking power of the Stasi, the secret police, remained. East Germans continued to ...

Stasi officers “kept an iron grip on every aspect of life inside East Germany”, but tried to destroy their internal records when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, says the newspaper. But the files ...

The GDR was neither a hell nor a utopia ... and dominance by the Socialist Unity Party (38 per cent) but Stasi spying only scored 5 per cent. Positive associations were considerably stronger — full ...

From 'Stasi club' to 'Nazi club' "Even prior to reunification ... could even exist in an anti-fascist socialist state like the GDR." Nowadays, the club's remaining supporter base is small ...

How much control is necessary for a society to function and how can the example of the Stasi help us understand today’s situation with policing, surveillance and big data? The Ministry for State ...

A six-episode miniseries that all but dares the viewer not to binge-watch, The Same Sky is inspired by the infamous Operation Romeo hatched by GDR spymaster Markus Wolf. In 1974 East Berlin, the Stasi ...

02/19/2025 February 19, 2025 How did the East German state keep its people under surveillance? We get a peek behind the scenes at the former Stasi headquarters in Berlin.