Barkas (van manufacturer)
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Barkas was an East German manufacturer of small delivery vans and minibuses named the B 1000. In addition to delivery vans, Barkas also made engines for Trabant cars.
Former Volkspolizei Barkas B 1000 van
B 1100 prototype
Fire engine
People carrier
Stasi
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The Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the Stasi, was the intelligence service and secret police of East Germany from 1950 to 1990. It was one of the most repressive police organisations i
Barkas (van manufacturer)
…with Trabants, of between ten and fourteen years. Perhaps the most infamous alleged use of the B 1000 in the time of East Germany was by the feared Stasi state security forces as a covert prisoner transport vehicle, whereby up to five prisoners could be held in tiny, windowless cells in the rear of the…
The main entrance to the Stasi headquarters (now Stasi Museum) in Berlin
These spy cameras are of the Robot Star series and were originally imported from West Germany before being customised by the technical operations division of the Stasi. Secret cameras and video cameras were used extensively as part of an ongoing and vast surveillance operation.
Citizens protesting and entering the Stasi building in Berlin; the sign accuses the Stasi and SED of being Nazi-like dictators (1990).
The former Stasi Prison, Erfurt