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The History of the Stasi - East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 (Paperback)
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The History of the Stasi - East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 (Paperback)
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A well-balanced and detailed look at the East German Ministry for
State Security, the secret police force more commonly known as the
Stasi. "This is an excellent book, full of careful, balanced
judgements and a wealth of concisely-communicated knowledge. It is
also well written. Indeed, it is the best book yet published on the
MfS."-German History The Stasi stood for Stalinist oppression and
all-encompassing surveillance. The "shield and sword of the party,"
it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty
years, and by the 1980s it had become the largest secret-police
apparatus in the world, per capita. Jens Gieseke tells the story of
the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional
intelligence service. He inquires into the mechanisms of
dictatorship and the day-to-day effects of surveillance and
suspicion. Masterful and thorough at once, he takes the reader
through this dark chapter of German postwar history, supplying key
information on perpetrators, informers, and victims. In an
assessment of post-communist memory politics, he critically
discusses the consequences of opening the files and the outcomes of
the Stasi debate in reunified Germany. A major guide for research
on communist secret-police forces, this book is considered the
standard reference work on the Stasi.
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