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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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

No violence!" For the regime, it was the beginning of the end. Even after the fall of the Wall, the lurking power of the Stasi, the secret police, remained. East Germans continued to demonstrate ...

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 (the East German secret police or internal surveillance service) kept files on some six million people throughout their operations from 1945 to 1990. They created fear and paranoia among ...