Former dissidents, released secret service files and a zine in an East Berlin basement reveal a little-known chapter of Cold ...

7 A car is driven towards a row of spikes as another tire-piercing plate awaits its trial at the Stasi's secret test facility in 1980. 8 An image from the Stasi archives apparently showing a ...

The Stasi, short for Staatssicherheit (state security), was notorious for its surveillance of East Germany's citizens, many of whom were pressed into spying on each other. Putin's Stasi spy ID ...

For instance, one could easily miss the smelling jar, which was used by the Stasi to train dogs on the ... On the counter-surveillance side is a display of American musician Merryl Goldberg ...

East Germany's hated "Staatssicherheit" or Stasi police built a repressive apparatus of surveillance and intimidation, using ...

During the Cold War, East Germany's feared and hated "Staatssicherheit" or Stasi police built a repressive apparatus of surveillance and intimidation, using millions of officers and informants ...

How much control is necessary for a society to function and how can the example of the Stasi help us understand today’s situation with policing, surveillance and big data? The Ministry for State ...

The Stasi put her under surveillance in response, along with other activists. As her environmental and peace activism grew, the secret police eventually put Kallenbach on a list of people of ...