Forget 1984! You don’t usually get a non-fiction look behind the curtain of the state security and secret police apparatus in a dictatorship. The Spies Among Us, a new documentary from Jamie Coughlin ...

In early August 2021, National Geographic published an article titled “As Germany’s Secret-Police Archive Shutters, Reckoning for Its Victims Continues.” The piece describes the Stasi, the German ...

In your story in this week’s issue, “A Transparent Woman,” a young woman is unwillingly recruited as a Stasi informer in East Berlin in the early eighties. What inspired this idea? A few years ago, I ...

Ralf Drescher recalls joining a demonstration and storming the headquarters of the East German secret police 35 years ago. Jörg Carstensen/dpa A hand-written flyer changed everything for photographer ...

The Stasi wasn’t just another secret police - it built the most intrusive surveillance machine the world had ever seen, tagging citizens with radioactive spray so agents could track them in crowds. In ...

East Germany's feared secret police had a bit of a sartorial flair. This photo was of a man wearing a fur hat, gold-rimmed sunglasses and a fake moustache was part of a seminar to teach incoming Stasi ...

CULVER CITY, California — Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency, a year-long new exhibition at the Wende Museum in Culver City, brings together archival ...

This article was written by Safa for the series “Digitized Divides” and originally published on tacticaltech.org. An edited version is republished by Global Voices under a partnership agreement.

With the acclaim that has greeted "The Lives of Others" -- a drama set in 1980s East Germany about a Stasi officer who bugs the apartment of a successful theater director and his actress wife -- it is ...