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The Stasi: How East Germany Built a Surveillance State
In this episode of The History of Germany: Kingdoms, War, and Rebuilding Europe, Lucas and Luna delve into the rise and fall of the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. From its founding in 1950 under Wilhelm Zaisser to its role in crushing the 1953 Uprising, the Stasi evolved into one of history's most pervasive surveillance apparatuses. Lucas explains how Minister for State Security Erich Mielke expanded the agency to employ nearly 100,000 officers and an army of 170,000 informants—called Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter—who infiltrated every facet of life. The episode covers the…
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