The irony of workers striking and marching – the tools of the political left – against an ostensibly leftist government was not lost on Bertolt Brecht, a prominent poet, playwright and communist, who penned a poem called “The grounds for further surveillance and further repression of dissent was clear, and the Stasi was the tool by which it would be enacted. By comparison, the Gestapo employed one secret policeman per 2,000 people. All Rights Reserved. A little like when Le Pen referred to the holocaust as "a mere detail of history". His slow descent into obsession, the tedious scrutiny with which he follows the pair around and the inevitable meeting of Wiesler’s professional spying and personal fixations is beautifully played out, creating an essence of what the Stasi meant to the East German people.

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Huge collection, amazing choice, 100+ million high quality, affordable RF and RM images. The Gestapo, under the direction of Himmler, Heydrich and the SS, were intimately involved in the murder of over 6 million people. After an uprising by workers in 1953 – campaigning for a state that was more like socialist which they had been sold by the authorities, with fairer wages and better conditions – was put down by the government and the Soviets, the need for a stronger secret police was clear to the DDR’s hierarchy.
Their primary focus, they tried to get information about their population so they could control it, and that’s fundamentally what dictatorships and totalitarian systems do around the world. “The KGB, the Stazi, and the Gestapo could never have dreamt of having anything as great or as comprehensive as this capacity to monitor the population. The worst you could say about the Stasi is that they were nosey! Nazis paved the way by using citizens as informers or denouncers. The line between the state and the individual blurred, completely. The former East German strongman fell with his state. DIGITAL SPY, PART OF THE HEARST UK ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK©2020 Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ.

There are thousands of [communist] agents […] In comparison with the NKVD, the Gestapo methods are child's play.” General Leopold Okulicki, nom deguerre "Niedzwiadek". “The operational methods of the NKVD, which control every aspect of life, had permeated everywhere, and demoralized weaker individuals. Both evil organisations in Nazi Germany and Communist East Germany. Their secrecy was their strength, so let us talk you through a few of the methods in which they exerted their control over life in East Germany.The world of Cold War spying is often depicted as a glamorous business, with clandestine meetings, ingenious gadgets and high drama. I'd lump the NKVD with the other two as a contender. No need to register, buy now! Psychological policing of Germany’s population—to root out dissenting voices and prevent people from challenging the government—had been the norm under the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s intelligence-gathering police. While there might have been some allure in espionage in the latter part of the 20th century, it certainly didn’t exist in East Germany. Welcome to the Digital Spy forums. If one was looking for a cipher with which to decode the totality of the Stasi, The Lives of Others might well be the perfect option.It bears mentioning because, before the film came out in 2006, the story of the Stasi was not well known outside of Germany. From the throne to jail: Erich Honecker was hunted, homeless, exiled and jailed in his last years of life.

When the Stasi were founded in 1950, it wasn’t seen as controversial.Indeed, the Stasi was seen as a localized extension of the KGB, the Soviet Security Service that had arrived when the Russians had liberated Berlin from the Nazis in 1945.

Movies such as Bridge of Spies, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Funeral in Berlin depict the hijinx of agents crossing the Berlin Wall, but the definitive cinematic portrayal of the East German era is The Lives of Others, a low key, intense story of a Stasi agent Gerd Wiesler’s increasing infatuation with a bohemian couple.


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