Includes pictures Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading T]he Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic.
It was called Zersetzung, and it's described in another guideline.
The word is difficult to translate because it means originally biodegradation.
But actually, it's a quite accurate description.
The goal was to destroy secretly the self-confidence of people, for example by damaging their reputation, by organizing failures in their work, and by destroying their personal relationships.
Considering this, East Germany was a very modern dictatorship.
The Stasi didn't try to arrest every dissident.
It preferred to paralyze them, and it could do so because it had access to so much personal information and to so many institutions.
- Hubertus Knabe, German historian The history of East Germany was closely intertwined with the development of its security services, specifically the Stasi.
In an era of totalitarian countries dominated by repressive state agencies, the Stasi stood out for its size, and the sheer breadth and depth of its surveillance.
Films such as Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) encapsulated post-unification attitudes and conceptions of both life in East Germany and the activities of the Stasi.
Despite its notoriety, the legacy of the Stasi is contested in modern Germany.
Former West Germans, and Westerners more generally, closely align the East German state and the Stasi, framing a Stasi State.
Those in the former East Germany, however, resent the patronizing attitudes and conflation of the two institutions, preferring to focus on the social elements of the East German state.
Uwe Spiekermann, of the German Historical Institute, succinctly sets out the impressions of many when considering East Germany and its culture of surveillance: In retrospect, the Stasi has become a symbol for the GDR East Germany].
The East German State Security Service, or Staatssicherheitsdienst in German (abbreviated to Stasi.
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