Stasi - Wikipedia
It was one of the most repressive police organisations in the world, infiltrating almost every aspect of life in East Germany, using torture, intimidation and a vast network of informants to crush dissent.
Stasi | Meaning, Facts, Methods, & Files | Britannica
2024年12月11日 · Stasi, secret police agency of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It sought to infiltrate every institution of society and every aspect of daily life, including even intimate personal and familial relationships.
The Stasi: The Most Terrifying Secret Police in History?
2021年8月13日 · Stalin’s Russia used the KGB, Nazi Germany used the Gestapo, and East Germany had the infamous Stasi. The Stasi were one of the most successful intelligence services in history: they kept almost unimaginably detailed files and records on large quantities of the population, and created an atmosphere of fear and unease that they then proceeded ...
The East German secret police and the Berlin Wall
2021年8月12日 · From August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989, tens of thousands of Stasi staff had but one goal, and that was making the Wall insurmountable for East Germans. Citizens were bugged, their mail opened,...
East German Secret Police: 5 Things You Might Not Know About ...
The Nazi secret police, the Gestapo, could claim to have had around 40,000 operatives in a country of around 80 million people, while their Soviet equivalent, the KGB, had around 500,000 agents in a country with a population north of 280 million.
Piecing Together the Secrets of the Stasi - The New Yorker
2024年5月27日 · After the Berlin Wall fell, agents of East Germany’s secret police frantically tore apart their records. Archivists have spent the past thirty years trying to restore them.
The Stasi: Inside the Twisted World of East Germany‘s Secret ...
2024年5月25日 · In the annals of 20th-century history, few organizations have left a more chilling legacy than the Stasi, the notorious secret police of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Born in the early years of the Cold War, the Stasi evolved into a sprawling apparatus of surveillance and psychological terror, casting a long shadow over the lives of ...