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The Stasi Left
While the Nazis and their counterparts attacked a wide range of artists as “degenerate,” the Stasi worked with and supported entertainers and writers.
But the files were saved by East German citizens who stormed Stasi offices in the city of Erfurt. Earlier this year, researchers at the Stasi Records Agency released an analysis of the former ...
It's a significant fall from grace for BFC Dynamo, ten-time Oberliga champions, three-time East German cup winners and pride of Erich Mielke, the head of the secret police, or Stasi. And yet ...
During this time, he had many interactions with East German officials from the secret police, called the Stasi. While the KGB documents about Putin were destroyed, or taken back to the USSR, many of ...
For those who haven’t seen Steven Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies” or the Academy Award-winning German ... East Germany and its people were controlled by the Ministry of State Security, or ...
Meanwhile at home in East Germany ... which is located in the building where the Stasi had their offices. In English and German.
Briefly stated, the film focuses on the gradual disillusionment of the Stasi officer, Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler, who is tasked with gathering compromising information on a successful East German ...
She even learned German to be able to better approach people about the doc. “We started reaching out to Stasi officers, and it was clear that there was a skepticism for Stasi officers to engage ...
For those who haven’t seen Steven Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies” or the Academy Award-winning German drama ... From 1950 to 1990, East Germany and its people were controlled by the Ministry of State ...