Zersetzung - Wikipedia
WEBZersetzung (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.
The Lingering Trauma of Stasi Surveillance
WEBNov 9, 2019 · The Ministry for State Security—commonly known as the Stasi —wiretapped, bugged, and tracked citizens. It steamed open letters and drilled holes in walls. It had nearly 200,000...
Stasi - Wikipedia
WEBSome groups within the former Stasi community used threats of violence to scare off Stasi hunters, who were actively tracking down ex-members. Though these hunters succeeded in identifying many ex-Stasi, charges could not be brought against anyone merely for being a registered Stasi member.
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.
Stasi records agency disbanded but files live on
WEBJun 17, 2021 · Germany allows private citizens to look at files the Stasi might have had on them or their close relatives. Some 3,000 requests are filed each month.
You Know Who Else Collected Metadata? The Stasi. - ProPublica
WEBFeb 11, 2014 · The East German secret police, known as the Stasi, were an infamously intrusive secret police force. They amassed dossiers on about one quarter of the population of the country during the...
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.
Piecing Together the Secrets of the Stasi - The New Yorker
WEBMay 27, 2024 · Piecing Together the Secrets of the Stasi. After the Berlin Wall fell, agents of East Germany’s secret police frantically tore apart their records. Archivists have spent the past thirty years...
History turned upside down: the Stasi and the 1967 West Berlin killing
WEBMay 28, 2009 · The policeman who shot dead an innocent civilian in a West Berlin street demonstration in 1967, an event that set off more than a decade of leftwing violence in West Germany and influenced the...
Psychologists’ involvement in repressive “Stasi” secret police ...
WEBThe historic case of the East German “Stasi” secret police provides the opportunity to systematically study such clandestine abuses of psychology, as the Stasi archives are open and accessible.