The Lingering Trauma of Stasi Surveillance
WEBNov 9, 2019 · But states are now using modern technology to oppress their citizens in ways simply unavailable to the Stasi—by monitoring movements, spying on communications, and tracking financial...
Stasi | Meaning, Facts, Methods, & Files | Britannica
WEBAug 9, 2024 · 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. In doing so, it became one of the most hated and feared institutions in East Germany.
Lessons from the Stasi – A cautionary tale on mass surveillance
WEBMar 31, 2015 · Four decades of domination over almost all aspects of life in East Germany came to an abrupt halt exactly 25 years ago today. On 31 March 1990, one of the most intrusive surveillance organisations in human history, the Ministry for State Security, more infamously known as the Stasi, was dissolved.
Hubertus Knabe: The dark secrets of a surveillance state | TED Talk
WEBUniquely powerful at spying on its citizens, until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the Stasi masterminded a system of surveillance and psychological pressure that kept the country under control for decades. Hubertus Knabe studies the Stasi — and was spied on by them.
Stasi - Wikipedia
WEBBy the 1970s, the Stasi had decided that the methods of overt persecution that had been employed up to that time, such as arrest and torture, were too crude and obvious. Such forms of oppression were drawing significant international condemnation.
Mass surveillance in East Germany - Wikipedia
WEBIn January 1990, demonstrators broke into the Stasi headquarters. On 3 October 1990, the states of East Germany formally joined the Federal Republic of Germany to reunite East and West Germany. As a result of the revolution, Stasi files fell into the hands of the reunited German government.
Berlin Wall: secret police files and the memories of two …
WEBNov 8, 2019 · Many people whose lives were affected by repression at the hands of the Stasi – the East German secret police – are still alive and the memories of that repression are fresh and painful.
As Germany's secret-police archive shutters, reckoning for its …
WEBAug 3, 2021 · The Stasi archives, a repository of surveillance crimes against East German citizens, is moving to Germany's National Archives to ensure its pivotal role endures.
The History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 …
WEBThe East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The "shield and sword of the party," it ...
Stasi : the untold story of the East German secret police
WEBThe Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppressed political opposition, and caused the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of citizens, proved to be one of the most powerful secret police and espionage services in the world.