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John O. Koehler, German-born American journalist Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. In 1989, the Stasi employed 91,015 people full-time, including 2,000 fully employed unofficial collaborators, 13,073 soldiers and 2,232 officers of the GDR army, along with 173,081 unofficial informants inside the GDR and 1,553 ...
Zersetzung (pronounced [t͡sɛɐ̯ˈzɛt͡sʊŋ] ⓘ, German for "decomposition" and "disruption") was a psychological warfare technique used by the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) to repress political opponents in East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s.
Stasi. The Firm and its Function. The MfS was founded to suppress enemies of the Socialist Unity Party and their guiding ideology of Marxist-Leninism both at home and abroad. From 1957 until 1989, Erich Mielke led the Stasi with a penchant for wanting to be informed on everything going on in the GDR.
Central remand prison of the Ministry for State Security. Founded in 1950, the Ministry for State Security (MfS) (commonly known as the Stasi) was tasked with securing the rule of the SED and eliminating opponents of the regime. To this end, the MfS took over the Soviet basement prison as its central remand centre from 1951.
9. Nov. 2019 · The Lingering Trauma of Stasi Surveillance. Thirty years after reunification, memories of the East German police state continue to exact a profound psychological toll. By Charlotte Bailey. A...
Trials and Tribulations: The Stasi Legacy in Contemporary German Politics by Christiane Lemke Center for European Studies, Harvard University Coming to terms with the legacy of the Stasi, the Staatssicherheit, in the former GDR is one of the greatest political challenges facing unified Germany today. For forty years the powerful secret police
1. Jan. 2014 · The Stasi stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The “shield and sword of the party,” it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had become the largest secret-police apparatus in the world, per capita. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police ...
