A state of secrecy: Stasi informers and the culture of surveillance

Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying heavily on human forms of data collection in the form of informants. To date little is known about the complicated and conflicted lives of informers, who o...

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Main Author: Lewis, Alison 1958- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press [2021]
In:Year: 2021
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Keywords:
Germany (East) > Ministerium für Staatssicherheit > History
Intelligence service > Germany (East) > History
Authors as spies > Germany (East)
Informers > Germany (East)
Biografie
Deutschland > DDR > Deutschland > DDR > Ministerium für Staatssicherheit > Spitzel > Schriftsteller > Intellektueller > Geschichte 1949-1989
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