Peaceful demonstrations against the regime took place in the months leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall ... lurking power of the Stasi, the secret police, remained. East Germans continued ...

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 secret service headquarter in Berlin.

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 ...

In 1974 East Berlin, the Stasi grooms a young agent (Tom Schilling) to go undercover in West Berlin where his mission is to seduce a woman who works for the US military and to obtain intelligence from ...

Except that, directly behind the opposite stand, a section of the Berlin ... three-time East German cup winners and pride of Erich Mielke, the head of the secret police, or Stasi.

The two filmmakers ended up visiting museums and educational venues about Stasi history, such as the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial. “We learned about the tactics that the Stasi used ...

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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, records of East Germany's secret police are uncovered. The Stasi archives reveal surveillance methods and victims through interviews, documents and reconstructed ...