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The Stasi - Myth and Reality (Hardcover)
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The Stasi - Myth and Reality (Hardcover)
Series: Themes In Modern German History
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The East German Ministry of State Security, popularly known as the
Stasi, was one of the largest and most intrusive secret police
systems in world history. So extensive was the system of
surveillance and control that in any given year throughout the
1970s and 1980s, about one in fifty of the 13 million East German
adults were working for the Stasi either as an officer or as an
informer. Drawing on original sources from the Stasi archives and
the recollections of contemporary witnesses, The Stasi: Myth and
Reality reveals the intricacies of the relationship between the
Stasi enforcers, its agents and its targets/victims, and
demonstrates how far the Stasi octopus extended its tentacles into
people's lives and all spheres of society. The origins and
developments of this vast system of repression are examined, as
well as the motivation of the informers and the ways in which they
penetrated the niches of East German society. The final chapters
assess the ministry's failure to help overcome the GDR's inherent
structural defects and demonstrate how the Stasi's bureaucratic
procedures contributed to the implosion of the Communist system at
the end of the 1980's.
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