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Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3736909888
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)
Download or read book The Conditions, Means and Methods of the MfS in the GDR written by and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2004-02-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nessim Ghouas
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3898739880
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Conditions, Means and Methods of the MfS in the GDR written by Nessim Ghouas and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John O. Koehler
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786724412
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Stasi written by John O. Koehler and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or "Stasi." The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppressed political opposition, and caused the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of citizens, proved to be one of the most powerful secret police and espionage services in the world. Koehler methodically reviews the Stasi's activities within East Germany and overseas, including its programs for internal repression, international espionage, terrorism and terrorist training, art theft, and special operations in Latin America and Africa. Koehler was both Berlin bureau chief of the Associated Press during the height of the Cold War and a U.S. Army Intelligence officer. His insider's account is based on primary sources, such as U.S. intelligence files, Stasi documents made available only to the author, and extensive interviews with victims of political oppression, former Stasi officers, and West German government officials. Drawing from these sources, Koehler recounts tales that rival the most outlandish Hollywood spy thriller and, at the same time, offers the definitive contribution to our understanding of this still largely unwritten aspect of the history of the Cold War and modern Germany.
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Total Pages : 846 pages
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Download or read book Daily Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Funder
Publisher : Odyssey Editions
ISBN 13 : 1623730376
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Stasiland written by Anna Funder and published by Odyssey Editions. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stasiland tells true stories of people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship of East Germany, and of people who worked for its secret police, the Stasi. Internationally hailed as a classic, it is ‘fascinating, entertaining, hilarious, horrifying and very important’ (Tom Hanks) and ‘a heartbreaking, beautifully written book.’ (Claire Tomalin). East Germany was one of the most intrusive surveillance states of all time. One in 7 people spied on their friends, family and colleagues. In ‘the most humane and sensitive way’ (J.M. Coetzee) Funder tells the true stories of four people who had the extraordinary courage to refuse to collaborate with the Stasi, and the price they paid. She meets Miriam Weber, who was imprisoned at 16 after scaling the Berlin Wall. She drinks with the legendary “Mik Jegger” of the Eastern Bloc who was ‘disappeared’. And she finds former Stasi men who defend their regime long past its demise, and yearn for the second coming of Communism. Stasiland won the Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction published in English in 2004. It was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, the W.H. Heinemann Award, the Index Freedom of Expression Awards, The Age Book of the Year Awards, the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature (Innovation in Writing). It is read in schools and universities in many countries, and has been adapted for CD and the stage by The National Theatre, London.
Author : Nancy T. Wolfe
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Policing a Socialist Society written by Nancy T. Wolfe and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-01-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to live under the police and a criminal justice system in a socialist society and in a country governed by Marxist-Leninists? This is the first book-length study of criminal justice in the German Democratic Republic. Based on first-hand research conducted over a six-year period from 1985 to the present, the case study analyzes how the society has been transformed politically, socially, and economically since the 1989 revolution and reincorporation with the rest of Germany. This volume should be of interest to students, teachers, and professionals in criminal justice and sociology, political science, law, and European history. This analysis of policing in a socialist society reports on the work of the People's Police and the State Security Police and how principles of criminal justice and methods of governance changed with the dissolution of the GDR. The study relies on primary source materials and extensive interviews of police professionals and academicians in the field of criminal justice.
Author : Die deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Deutsche Nationalbibliografie written by Die deutsche Nationalbibliothek and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniela Münkel
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ISBN 13 : 9783946572435
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (724 download)
Download or read book State Security written by Daniela Münkel and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helma Kaldewey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108486185
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book A People's Music written by Helma Kaldewey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of jazz over the complete lifespan of East Germany, from 1945 to 1990, for the first time.
Author : Kristie Macrakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521887472
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (874 download)
Download or read book Seduced by Secrets written by Kristie Macrakis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More fascinating than fiction, Seduced by Secrets takes the reader inside the real world of one of the most effective and feared spy agencies in history. The book reveals, for the first time, the secret technical methods and sources of the Stasi (East German Ministry for State Security) as it stole secrets from abroad and developed gadgets at home, employing universal, highly guarded techniques often used by other spy and security agencies. Seduced by Secrets draws on secret files from the Stasi archives, including CIA-acquired material, interviews and friendships, court documents, and unusual visits to spy sites, including "breaking into" a prison, to demonstrate that the Stasi overestimated the power of secrets to solve problems and created an insular spy culture more intent on securing its power than protecting national security. It recreates the Stasi's secret world of technology through biographies of agents, defectors, and officers and by visualizing James Bond-like techniques and gadgets. In this highly original book, Kristie Macrakis adds a new dimension to our understanding of the East German Ministry for State Security by bringing the topic into the realm of espionage history and exiting the political domain.
Author : Mike Dennis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317876555
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Stasi written by Mike Dennis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East German Ministry of State Security, popularly known as the Stasi, was one of the largest and most intrusive secret police systems in world history. So extensive was the system of surveillance and control that in any given year throughout the 1970s and 1980s, about one in fifty of the 13 million East German adults were working for the Stasi either as an officer or as an informer. Drawing on original sources from the Stasi archives and the recollections of contemporary witnesses, The Stasi: Myth and Reality reveals the intricacies of the relationship between the Stasi enforcers, its agents and its targets/victims, and demonstrates how far the Stasi octopus extended its tentacles into people’s lives and all spheres of society. The origins and developments of this vast system of repression are examined, as well as the motivation of the informers and the ways in which they penetrated the niches of East German society. The final chapters assess the ministry’s failure to help overcome the GDR’s inherent structural defects and demonstrate how the Stasi’s bureaucratic procedures contributed to the implosion of the Communist system at the end of the 1980’s.
Author : Mary Fulbrook
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300176384
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The People's State written by Mary Fulbrook and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? The headline stories of Cold War spies and surveillance by the secret police, of political repression and corruption, do not tell the whole story. After the unification of Germany in 1990 many East Germans remembered their lives as interesting, varied, and full of educational, career, and leisure opportunities: in many ways “perfectly ordinary lives.” Using the rich resources of the newly-opened GDR archives, Mary Fulbrook investigates these conflicting narratives. She explores the transformation of East German society from the ruins of Hitler's Third Reich to a modernizing industrial state. She examines changing conceptions of normality within an authoritarian political system, and provides extraordinary insights into the ways in which individuals perceived their rights and actively sought to shape their own lives. Replacing the simplistic black-and-white concept of “totalitarianism” by the notion of a “participatory dictatorship,” this book seeks to reinstate the East German people as actors in their own history.
Author : Jens Gieseke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782382550
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book The History of the Stasi written by Jens Gieseke and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-balanced and detailed look at the East German Ministry for State Security, the secret police force more commonly known as the Stasi. “This is an excellent book, full of careful, balanced judgements and a wealth of concisely-communicated knowledge. It is also well written. Indeed, it is the best book yet published on the MfS.”—German History The Stasi 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 the largest secret-police apparatus in the world, per capita. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional intelligence service. He inquires into the mechanisms of dictatorship and the day-to-day effects of surveillance and suspicion. Masterful and thorough at once, he takes the reader through this dark chapter of German postwar history, supplying key information on perpetrators, informers, and victims. In an assessment of post-communist memory politics, he critically discusses the consequences of opening the files and the outcomes of the Stasi debate in reunified Germany. A major guide for research on communist secret-police forces, this book is considered the standard reference work on the Stasi.
Author : Roland Naul
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780419245407
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Sport and Physical Education in Germany written by Roland Naul and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and comprehensive collection brings together material from leading German scholars to examine the role of sport and PE in Germany from a range of historical and contemporary perspectives.
Author : Hans-Georg Schleicher
Publisher : Sapes Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Special Flights to Southern Africa written by Hans-Georg Schleicher and published by Sapes Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a reflection of the German Democratic Republic's links with the national liberation movements in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia, based on the authors' personal involvement and on archival studies and interviews. Liberation movements had neither time nor the resources to keep proper record and documents in the business of waging war against colonial and apartheid rule. The book provides insight into this memorable facet of the liberation struggle. - Hans-Georg Schleicher is a historian who served as a GDR diplomat in Zambia, the UN, Zimbabwe and Namibia. Ilona Schleicher works at the Institute of Labour Movement (Berlin). Together they spent 10 years in Southern Africa.
Author : Timothy Scott Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110747034X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book West Germany and the Global Sixties written by Timothy Scott Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anti-authoritarian revolt of the 1960s and 1970s was a watershed in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. The rebellion of the so-called '68ers' - against cultural conformity and the ideological imperatives of the Cold War, against the American war in Vietnam, and in favor of a more open accounting for the crimes of the Nazi era - helped to inspire a dialogue on democratization with profound effects on German society. Timothy Scott Brown examines the unique synthesis of globalizing influences on West Germany to reveal how the presence of Third World students, imported pop culture from America and England, and the influence of new political doctrines worldwide all helped to precipitate the revolt. The book explains how the events in West Germany grew out of a new interplay of radical politics and popular culture, even as they drew on principles of direct-democracy, self-organization and self-determination, all still highly relevant in the present day.
Author : Eric Burton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110623544
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Navigating Socialist Encounters written by Eric Burton and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories.
