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Routledge
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Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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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.
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Introduction. I. THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE EAST GERMAN SECURITY SERVICE, 1945-71. 1.From Weimar Republic to GDR. 2.The Ministry of State Security, 1950-71. II. THE SWORD AND THE COMPASS. 3. The party and its Sword. 4. The Security Colossus. 5.Political Justice in Dictatorship. III. THE FIRM AND ITS SERVANTS. 6. Serving the Cause - the Officer Class. 7. Mielke's Unofficial Collaborators. IV. HUNTING FOR THE ENEMY. 8.Monitor and firefighter.
Biography
Mike Dennis is Professor of Modern History at the University of Wolverhampton. Among his main publications are The German Democratic Republic; Social and Economic Modernization in Eastern Germany: From Honecker to Kohl and The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990.
'illuminating, well structured and lucid study...
His impressive and useful book will be essential reading for students and scholars of the GDR for many years to come.'
European History Quarterly
