The History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 by Jens Gieseke

The History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990

Jens Gieseke

268 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The East German Ministry for State Security 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...

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