Yet it managed to convince the West that it was being progressive. Here is the story of how the Stasi gained control over the lives of the East German people and the methods it used.

Gerd Wiesler is an officer with the Stasi, the East German secret police. The film begins in 1984 when Wiesler attends a play written by Georg Dreyman, who is considered by many to be the ultimate ...

East Berlin, early 1980s: Ludger is hired by the Stasi to spy on the oppositional arts scene in Prenzlauer Berg. But when he falls in love with the mysterious Nathalie, he has to choose between a ...

It is the Stasi, the feared German secret police that terrorized East Germany from 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall. In a compelling new book, A State of Secrecy: Stasi Informers and the Cult ...

Throughout the summer of 1989, the Communist regime found itself under enormous pressure because huge numbers of East Germans ... where the Stasi had their offices. In English and German.

But the files were saved by East German citizens who stormed Stasi offices in the city of Erfurt. Earlier this year, researchers at the Stasi Records Agency released an analysis of the former ...

Punk rockers in former East Germany were seen by the secret police, the Stasi, as a subversive anti-government force. Now more than 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Chaos, who was part ...

1h 51m 2022 German In the early 1980s, the Stasi ask young East Berliner Ludger to collect information on the artist and bohemian scene in Prenzlauer Berg, but he feels so comfortable there that ...