Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police John O Koehler
Publisher: Basic Books

In the middle of January, Berlin history buffs and GDR junkies were suddenly abuzz with curious excitement about the re-opening of Erich Mielke's office. And his office in Berlin's newly renovated Stasi Museum. Category: Essential Reading, Waco have outraged Germans, who are highly sensitive to government monitoring having lived through the Stasi secret police in the former communist East Germany and with lingering memories of the Gestapo of Hitler's Nazi regime. Jan 20, 2014 - For more than six months, Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency (NSA) have been pouring out from the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, Germany's Der Spiegel, and Brazil's O Globo, . Jul 1, 2013 - Waco: The Untold Story. Decryption, the NSA can now capture the kind of gritty details of private life that J. Edgar Hoover so treasured and provide the sort of comprehensive coverage of populations once epitomized by secret police like East Germany's Stasi. The oligarchs soon became famous but the untold story of 'Londongrad' is one of greed, excess, secret business deals and political intrigue. Nov 5, 2010 - Based on previously classified documents and on interviews with former secret police officers and ordinary citizens, The Firm is the first comprehensive history of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, at the grassroots level. Mar 2, 2012 - Tam Eastley traces the ghosts of Erich Mielke, head of East Germany's notorious secret police, and visits the newly renovated Stasi Museum. But it was the Stasi, East Germany's sinister secret police, that perfected these psychological techniques and used them extensively against dissidents in the 1970s and 1980s. Sep 11, 2009 - Taken from Stasi: the untold story of the East German secret police By John O. After talking to associates who have never spoken before and drawing on .. Dec 9, 2013 - In Koehler's book Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police, former Stasi Colonel Rainer Wiegand estimated that the total number of informers was as high as two million. A shocking revelation that ultimately led to the death of the man who sought to expose it, attorney Paul Wilcher.