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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
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
Erich Mielke
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Erich Fritz Emil Mielke was a German communist official who served as head of the East German Ministry for State Security, better known as the Stasi, from 1957 until shortly after the fall of the Berl
Stasi
…The Stasi had its headquarters in East Berlin, with an extensive complex in Berlin-Lichtenberg and several smaller facilities throughout the city. Erich Mielke, the Stasi's longest-serving chief, controlled the organisation from 1957 to 1989—32 of the 40 years of the GDR's existence. The HVA, under the leadership…
Mielke in 1976
Köllnisches Gymnasium
Mielke in 1927
Walter Ulbricht, mastermind of the Anlauf-Lenck murders, later General Secretary of the East German SED from 1949 to 1971.