Tag: Stasi
30 years of inspection of files: Open secrets of the Stasi policy
These two sentences completed a political upheaval: “Every individual has the right to request information from the Federal Archives as to whether information about himself is contained in the developed…
“In the sights of the Stasi” by Suza Kolb – culture
Open detailed view The GDR existed for 41 years. That is considerably longer than the period between the Weimar Republic and the “Third Reich” combined. Nevertheless, the knowledge of Germans…
On the death of Klaus Röhl – Medien
Anyone who grew up with left-wing parents and their friends knew their name with different qualifications: Röhl the ass, Röhl the pig, Röhl the traitor. The publicist, born near Danzig…
Matthias Jügler on meeting a former Stasi IM – Culture
I recently received an email in response to my novel “The Forsaken”. There had been angry news before. My novel, which deals with the aftermath of the SED dictatorship in…