Title: The History of the Stasi
Description: 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.
Subjects: History, Internal security, Secret service, Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, Germany (East), Germany (east), ministerium fur staatssicherheit, Secret service, germany